On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 10:52:16 -0800 Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote:
> 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. Agreed. Although better to defer it to 3.3.0 at this point. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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
