Brett Cannon wrote: > 2010/10/28 Kristján Valur Jónsson <krist...@ccpgames.com>: >> I'm not sure what I'm actually proposing. But I certainly wasn't thinking >> of a new "fork" of python. And not a new version 2.8 that gets all new 3.x >> features backported. >> I'm more thinking of a place where usability improvements, C API >> improvements, performance improvements, Library improvments, can go. > > It's called a fork. I realize you are trying to avoid that "dirty" > word, Kristján, and I appreciate it, but you are describing a fork. > Python 2.7 is the last sanctioned version of the Python 2.x series, > period. Any non-bugfix changes will not go in there as policy > dictates. And with there being no way Python 2.8 will happen (I know > we as a group have said "slim chance" since Python 3.0 came out, > uptake of Python 3 is such I am willing to personally say "never" for > a python-dev sanctioned Python 2.8), that means it will take a fork, > whether it be internal to CCP or public somewhere, it will still be a > fork. > > And as everyone has said so far (and with which I agree), that's fine. > As long as it is not called Python 2.8 -- EVE-Python 2.8 or some Monty > Python reference -- then that's fine.
I don't see why we should not welcome a team of new developers who want to continue working on the 2.x series. It's obvious that a large proportion of the existing python-dev'ers will not participate in such a project, but why should we try to stop someone else to work on it ? -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Oct 29 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/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: 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
