Re: How about a feature freeze
"Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull(a)sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> writes:
Hrvoje> Modules might be one of the things we will want to
Hrvoje> finish for the 21.2 release. Breaking existing
Hrvoje> functionality into modules may or may not be part of
Hrvoje> that process. We should definitely think about it.
I think breaking out functionality at this point is a bad idea; do
we have any working and heavily used code in modules now?
We don't.
Did the docstrings issue ever get resolved?
It did.
Etc, etc; AFAIK there are still design issues with this capability
and we don't want to set bad precedents by doing things in a release
we one release later are forced to declare deprecated after user
experience reports come in.
The C interface stuff has unresolved issues. However, breaking stuff
internally might be a good UI issue.
But I don't have strong feelings about that. Maybe you're right, and
modules should be postponed for 21.4. But you could say the same for
the portable dumper, etc. It was only my thought that we should
finish these projects, if at all possible.