Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote: > On Jun 09, 2010, at 04:42 PM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > > >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. > > Note that Python 2.7 will be *maintained* for a very long time, which > should satisfy those folks who still require Python 2. Anybody on > older (and currently unmaintained) versions of Python 2 will not care > about new features so a Python 2.8 wouldn't help them anyway.
There are two kinds of new features, though. Those added to improve (or at any rate modify :-) the product, and those added to keep the product relevant to a changing external world (new operating systems, new communication protocols, etc.) I think it would take a pretty strong crystal ball to be able to rule out the latter kind of feature add from the 2.x line. Bill _______________________________________________ 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
