>>>>> Dmitry Gutov writes: > Just to be clear: the patch doesn't change the behavior of any working code. > It just catches a particular kind of bug earlier than it would manifest > through a cryptic behavior. > > Behavior which is non-trivial to debug, and thus adds to the already > non-trivial effort required of a person writing an advanced language support > code (using an external daemon talking over HTTP is fairly common for this > these days). I get that. But right now, if it doesn't *have* to happen, it should wait. We're thinking about cutting the release candidate in just a few days, pending one issue that Eli is looking into. Any change -- and I mean _any_ change -- has the potential to introduce unforeseen effects that could delay us further. -- John Wiegley GPG fingerprint = 4710 CF98 AF9B 327B B80F http://newartisans.com 60E1 46C4 BD1A 7AC1 4BA2