On Feb 03, 2016, at 11:03 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >The point being, I'm not entirely sure I agree that a major version bump >would *necessarily* be considered a big deal, let alone a barrier to >adoption.
The problem isn't so much the major version bump, but what to do about the command name on *nix. I'm admittedly biased about that being "the" problem. ;) I think you'd get a lot of resistance if you named it 'python'. You can't name it 'python3'. Maybe 'python4' would be okay, but please let's not do that any time soon. We're still in the midst of a transition to Python 3 and I think anything that muddies those waters will just mean more FUD that some of us front-liners have to contend with. OTOH, I can see it being worth it for something really big like getting rid of the GIL. Cheers, -Barry _______________________________________________ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers
