Le mercredi 18 janvier 2012 à 21:48 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull a écrit : > My claim is that I don't expect much uptake if you > don't do close to as many of what are called "alpha" and "beta" tests > on python-dev as are currently done.
You claim people won't use stable releases because of not enough alphas? That sounds completely unrelated. I don't know of any users who would bother about that. (you can produce flimsy software with many alphas, too) > > Alphas and betas never produce much feedback, because people are > > reluctant to install them for anything else than toying around. Python > > is not emacs or Firefox, you don't use it in a vacuum > > and therefore installing non-stable versions is dangerous. > > Exactly my point, except that the PEP authors seem to think that we > can cut back on the number of alpha and beta prereleases and still > achieve the stability that such users expect from a Python release. I > don't think that's right. Sure, and we think it is :) 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
