Michael Foord wrote: >> How does throwing away information represent "moving forward"? > > I'm inclined to agree. There is no *need* to close these tickets now. > >> I have to say I am surprised by the current lack of momentum behind 3.x, >> but I do know users who consider that their current investment in the >> 2.x series is unlikely to migrate to 3.x in the next five years, and it >> would be strange if they didn't continue to develop 2.x (including >> backporting some 3.x features). >> > > Who is the 'they' in your last sentence here? It seems to imply the > 'users'... Certainly no-one specific (neither individual nor group) have > stepped up and said they will continue to develop Python 2.x. Even if > they did it is not clear that they would use the python.org > infrastructure to do it. The Python core developers (basically) *have* > moved on and are unlikely to further develop 2.x. We'll see though, it's > all speculation at the moment.
I think it also depends on which core developers you ask :-) Many of them are not keen on having to maintain Python2 for much longer, but some of them may have assets codified in Python2 or interests based Python2 that they'll want to keep for more than just another 5 years. E.g. we still have customers that are on Python 2.3 and have just recently considered moving to Python 2.5. Depending on where you look, motivations are rather diverse. It's certainly not fair to require all core developers to continue working on Python2, but it would also be unfair to cancel out that possibility for a subset of interested devs. Even more so, since it doesn't really create any extra work for those that have no interest. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Jun 09 2010) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ 2010-07-19: EuroPython 2010, Birmingham, UK 39 days to go ::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ 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
