On 28.10.13 11:40, Kristján Valur Jónsson wrote:
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Subject: Re: [Stackless] Fwd: [Stackless-checkins] stackless (2.7-slp): add a
filter function to zipfile.PyZipFile.
I am thinking of a revised Stackless Policy
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You all know that I'm proactively supporting Python 3.x and have moved my
projects to it. Almost -- there is one important customer who needs Python
2.7.5, and that's the reason why I messed things up in the end.
I am sharing the Python 3 idea that new things should go into Python 3.
But I am not sharing the opinion that there shalt be no improvements to
Python 2.x in the restrictive way CPython does it.
Instead, I have the idea that Stackless could get a benefit from back-porting
more goodies from Python 3.x. This goes (at a much smaller scale) in the
same direction as Kristjan's idea to support futures without threads and
other async structures in Stackless 2.x which are not available in CPython 2.x.
So my new approach to changing the Stackless policy is this:
Stackless _does_ backport improvements that CPython does not allow, in a
way that is compatible with CPython 3.x.
There are two simple reasonings for both projects:
- CPython wants to give Python 2.x users a good reason to switch to Python
3.
- Stackless wants to give Python 2.x users a good reason to switch to
Stackless.
Ahem - What do you think?
Yes, I think this could be nice. But maybe we should then create a new branch.
Let's call it stackless 2.8. This would be our new main development branch.
We can backport features from 3.x (like improvements to locking) and
other such things that are minimally different from 2.7. There are people
still using 2.7 that might not want the break in functionality.
Yes, that is a good one.
Let us create 2.8 as the stackless development branch where things can go.
And a change for WingIDE goes into 3.4 and 2.8, right?
Cheers - Chris
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