Antoine Pitrou schrieb: > Georg Brandl <g.brandl <at> gmx.net> writes: >> >> skip <at> pobox.com schrieb: >> > Martin> And if *2.6* becomes the last of the 2.x series? >> > >> > With all due respect, I don't think you can make that decision now. The >> > time to have stated 2.6 would be the end of the 2.x line was when 2.6 was >> > released. At that point instead of opening up the trunk for changes you >> > would have closed it off or merged the py3k branch to trunk. 2.6.0 was >> > released over a year ago and there has been no effort to suppress bug fix >> > or >> > feature additions to trunk since then. If you call 2.6 "the end of 2.x" >> > you'll have wasted a year of work on 2.7 with about a month to go before >> > the >> > first 2.7 alpha release. >> >> +1. > > +1 as well. Besides, it is much better communication to release 2.7 and say up > front that it will be the last major release in the 2.x line. Announcing that > there won't be a 2.7, however, would give the impression of poor planning.
And of a rush to get rid of 2.x. Georg _______________________________________________ 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
