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None of the releases deemed final accept any new features. It's general release policy for any FLOSS project, and only neglected on rare occasions.
by tshepang 13y ago
None of the releases deemed final accept any new features. It's general release policy for any FLOSS project, and only neglected on rare occasions.
- cben 13y agoThere is a recent PEP excluding IDLE from this policy, allowing it to get usability improvements on older pythons. One could think that enabling completions is a similar usability fix (though one change isn't worth the arguing to get exception) but in fact this change required a new var in `sys` and changed site.py, both unacceptable for a minor release. That's even for backport to 3.3. As for 2.7, even when when allowed, most changes aren't backported to it simply because the code has diverged a lot and core devs are tired of implementing changes twice.