Terry Reedy wrote: > Michael Foord wrote: >> M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > >>> Why don't we just mark 3.0.x as experimental branch and keep updating/ >>> fixing things that were not sorted out for the 3.0.0 release ?! I think >>> that's a fair approach, given that the only way to get field testing >>> for new open-source software is to release early and often. >>> >>> A 3.1 release should then be the first stable release of the 3.x series >>> and mark the start of the usual deprecation mechanisms we have >>> in the 2.x series. Needless to say, that rushing 3.1 out now would >>> only cause yet another experimental release... major releases do take >>> time to stabilize. >>> >>> >> +1 >> >> I don't think we do users any favours by being cautious in removing / >> fixing things in the 3.0 releases. > > I have two main reactions to 3.0. > > 1. It is great for my purpose -- coding algorithms. > The cleaner object and text models are a mental relief for me. > So it was a service to me to release it. > I look forward to it becoming standard Python and have made my small > contribution by helping clean up the 3.0 version of the docs. > > 2. It is something of a trial run that it should be fixed as soon as > possible. I seem to remember sometning from Shakespear(?) "If it twer > done, tis best it twer done quickly". > > Guido said something over a year ago to the effect that he did not > expect 3.0 to be used as a production release, so I do not think it > should to treated as one. Label it developmental and people will not > try to keep in use for years and years in the way that, say, 2.4 still is. > It might also be a good idea to take the download link off the front page of python.org: until that happens newbies are going to keep coming along and downloading it "because it's the newest".
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