-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Aug 20, 2006, at 11:24 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> I wonder if it would make sense to focus in 2.6 on making porting of > 2.6 code to 3.0 easier, rather than trying to introduce new features > in 2.6. We've done releases without new language features before; > notable 2.3 didn't add anything new (except making a few __future__ > imports redundant) and concentrated on bugfixes, performance, and > library additions. +1, and there are other benefits to this approach too. First, the pace of change appears to slow, which addresses another source of complaints. Because instead of a slew of new features every 18 months, we really see that slew only every three years, with a stabilizing and bug fixing release in between. Another benefit is that with a de-emphasis on new features, we can spend more time improving the library and documentation. - -Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iQCVAwUBROiAk3EjvBPtnXfVAQKeMQP/QBfHJexDveKoj/nfjRjic3+HBvTupkoA bga7GmLV7Rn14AoHf+L6n3IhKkE1sIVXwzUmEoOeVN74h3trJSAeEYPjCF7Vt3// 3fZ4SgAlEy3nsOwRYufUtyYU9r36H7Fn7dKTtj+hJCVAzZdAOERy8ZMAEoSOw+Q4 vNfudLPznDQ= =7D1V -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
