On Thu, 21 Nov 2013 12:36:48 +0000 Kristján Valur Jónsson <krist...@ccpgames.com> wrote: > Yes, we have stackless 3.3 > But there is desire to have a 2.X version, with added fixes from 3.x, e.g. > certain improvements in the > standard library etc. > It's the old argument: moving to 3.x is not an option for some users, but > there are known improvements that > can be applied to current 2.7. Why not both have our cake and eat it? > cPython had probably two driving concerns for not making a 2.8: > 1) Focussing development on one branch > 2) encouraging (forcing) users to take the leap to 3 come hell or high water. > > For Stackless, neither argument applies because 2.8 work would be done > by us and stackless has no particular allegiance towards either version.
Stackless can release their own Stackless 2.8 if they want, but I don't get why CPython would have a 2.8 too. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
