On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 9:15 AM, Ezio Melotti <ezio.melo...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi, > > On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 3:29 PM, R. David Murray <rdmur...@bitdance.com> > wrote: > > On Thu, 15 Aug 2013 11:22:14 +0200, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> > wrote: > >> On Thu, 15 Aug 2013 11:16:20 +0200 > >> Victor Stinner <victor.stin...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > 2013/8/15 Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net>: > >> > > We don't have any substantial change in store for an eventual > "Python > >> > > 4", so it's quite a remote hypothesis right now. > >> > > >> > I prefered the transition between Linux 2 and Linux 3 (no major > >> > change, just a "normal" release except the version), rather than the > >> > transition between KDE 3 and KDE 4 (in short, everything was broken, > >> > the desktop was not usable). > >> > > >> > I prefer to not start a list of things that we will make the > >> > transition from Python 3 to Python 4 harder. Can't we do small changes > >> > between each Python release, even between major versions? > >> > >> That's exactly what I'm saying. > >> But some changes cannot be made without breakage, e.g. the unicode > >> transition. Then it makes sense to bundle all breaking changes in a > >> single version change. > > > > A number of us (I don't know how many) have clearly been thinking about > > "Python 4" as the time when we remove cruft. This will not cause any > > backward compatibility issues for anyone who has paid heed to the > > deprecation warnings, but will for those who haven't. The question > > then becomes, is it better to "bundle" these removals into the > > Python 4 release, or do them incrementally? > > > > A while ago I wrote an email to python-dev about our deprecation policy: > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2011-October/114199.html > > My idea was to turn this into an informational PEP but I didn't > receive much feedback. > If people are interested I could still do it. > Wouldn't hurt, but should probably be a part of PEP 4.
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