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Wed May 5 19:16:45 EDT 2004 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-May/044690.html

> > Huh?  We're talking about a bugfix release for 2.3 here.  Not a good
> > time for improvements, which sounds to me like a euphemism for new
> > features, not for bug fixes.
> 
> Adding a gettext compatible lgettext() might be a good thing,
> as well as bind_textdomain_codeset() (which pygtk users certainly
> have missed already) but I have to admit this is not a bug fix
> per se.

Definitely -1 for 2.3.4.

> > Even if they are backwards compatible, I'm still -1 on adding new
> > features to a bugfix release.
> 
> Acknowledged. Will prepare a patch for the next major asap.

Sure, if that's what Barry agreed to.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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