If we are talking about further compiler support, I'd like to have working mingw support. I've not been able to compile python on mingw since who knows when.
Cheers, Richard. On 1/7/14, Kristján Valur Jónsson <[email protected]> wrote: > Don't forget VS2010 compatibility. That too is a big ticket. Python sadly > has to have one windows compiler version per version, it doesn't support > both. > People that want to use python 2.x in modern projects are out of luck. > > The vision I have for 2.8 is the following: > > 1) allow future changes for syntax breaking language changes, like nonlocal. > Exception semantics could be there too but that's a lot of work. > 2) Just add in non-breaking features like yield from > 3) Allow backports of stdlib features from 3.x, such as weakref.WeakMethod > to name one > 4) Allow fixes to standardlib that might break existing undefined semantics, > such as changing the implementation of some stuff in httplib. (2.7 doesn't > accept _proper_ fixes, just _patches_ on top of kludges) > 5) Windows: Default compiler support is 2010. Heck, we could even go with > 2013 just for laughs! How would that sound? Dual support for 2010 and > 2013 > 6) Platform support: Let's add android cross compilation features in by > default! Android is on the move and python still isn't there. > > K > > > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:stackless- >> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Christian Tismer >> Sent: 7. janúar 2014 01:52 >> To: The Stackless Python Mailing List >> Subject: Re: [Stackless] stackless 2.8 >> >> On 07.01.14 02:23, Richard Tew wrote: >> > No, I just want to be clear on what everyone expects to get out of it. >> > For me, as I understand it, it's 2.x with whatever whomever wishes >> > to backport from 3.x, included. Therefore, to some degree it would >> > also serve (with no extra work than any of us plans) as an >> > intermediate point that lessens effort in migrating to 3.x by being >> > somewhere in between. >> > >> > I think that renaming the executable is what you should do. People >> > can alias to 'python' as they please. >> >> Very much agreed! >> That is what I'm going to do consequently, and quite probably this is the >> best >> to do in the future, too! >> >> But let us try it with 2.8 first. If people like what they get, then we >> should >> consider to extend the renaming. >> >> all the best -- Chris >> >> -- >> Christian Tismer :^) <mailto:[email protected]> >> Software Consulting : Have a break! Take a ride on Python's >> Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 121 : *Starship* http://starship.python.net/ >> 14482 Potsdam : PGP key -> http://pgp.uni-mainz.de >> phone +49 173 24 18 776 fax +49 (30) 700143-0023 >> PGP 0x57F3BF04 9064 F4E1 D754 C2FF 1619 305B C09C 5A3B 57F3 BF04 >> whom do you want to sponsor today? http://www.stackless.com/ >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Stackless mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.stackless.com/mailman/listinfo/stackless > > > > _______________________________________________ > Stackless mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.stackless.com/mailman/listinfo/stackless > _______________________________________________ Stackless mailing list [email protected] http://www.stackless.com/mailman/listinfo/stackless
