On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 09:34, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > I would like the next release called 3.2.0 rather than just 3.2. > > 'x.y' is known to be ambiguous and confusing. > > In most actual usages, I believe, it refers to the latest x.y.z release. On > the site, the 'x.y' docs are almost always the latest version of the docs > (actually x.y.z+additional fixes). In discussions on python-list, for > instance, advice to use 'x.y' means to download and use the latest x.y.z > release, not the initial x.y(.0) release. Similarly on the tracker, 'what > happens with x.y' means the same. > > So the alternate use of 'x.y' to mean x.y(.0) is both confusing and > correctable, at least for the future.
With all of the writing I have been doing recently, I agree that disambiguating 3.2.0 from 3.2 is a good thing. _______________________________________________ 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
