"Tony Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 12:58 AM +0200 5/12/07, Martin v. Löwis wrote: |>However, I would prefer to not use the verb "support" at all. agreed |"The Python Software Foundation maintains the current stable major |release of Python. By "maintains" we mean that the PSF will produce |bug fix releases of that version, currently Python 2.5. This strikes me as an improvement, but 'maintain' is close to 'support' and seems to make a promise that might also have unintended legal consequences. But that is what your legal consel is for. The actuality is that the legal fiction called the PSF *releases* new versions produced by a collection of volunteers, some of whom are PSF members and who perhaps consider that they do their work 'in the name of' PSF, and some of whom are not PSF members and perhaps do not have such a consideration. Defining CPython as a PSF rather than volunteer community product might discourage volunteer contributions. 'Official' statements need both motivation (what is there that is actually broken?) and care (to not break something else). | We have released patches for earlier versions as necessary, such as to fix security problems, Funny thing here is that the security releases, by necessity, are more a PSF product than normal releases. Terry Jan Reedy
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