On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote:
> Generally speaking, deferring something to Python 4 means "never". > Does that mean your aversion to double digit version numbers (i.e. 3.10) is gone or you expect to freeze Python in carbonite by then? -Brett > > On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 11:06 AM, R. David Murray <rdmur...@bitdance.com> > wrote: > > On Tue, 26 Feb 2013 18:14:26 +0000, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> BTW, I assume that the intention is that both cffi and ctypes remain > >> available indefinitely? Nobody's looking to deprecate ctypes? > > > > I would expect that ctypes would be deprecated eventually simply because > > there aren't very many people interested in maintaining it, and probably > > fewer if cffi is accepted. That said, I would not expect it to leave > > the stdlib until either the bit rot was so bad it wouldn't be worth > > shipping it, or (more likely) we reach Python4 and decide at that time > > that it is time for it to go. > > > > Of course, this is just me talking, we only have a *very* vague "sense of > > the house" for what Python4 means at this point :) > > > > --David > > _______________________________________________ > > 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/guido%40python.org > > > > -- > --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) > _______________________________________________ > 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/brett%40python.org >
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