2014-03-10 16:25 GMT+01:00 Stefan Richthofer <stefan.richtho...@gmx.de>: > I don't see the point in this discussion. > As far as I know, the major version is INTENDED to > indicate backward-incompatible changes.
This is not a strict rule. I would like to follow Linux 3 which didn't break the API between Linux 2 and Linux 3. > Even then, there is no need for 4.0; you can just have 3.10, 3.11 etc. The major version is sometimes seen as the age of a project. I propose to bump Python to version 4 because people understand that Python 4 is much better than Python 3 :-) Firefox changes its major version every 4 months or something like that. I suggest to wait less than 8 years for Python 4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_versioning#Political_and_cultural_significance_of_version_numbers Or maybe we should jump directly to Python 5 for asian users and to follow PHP version! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraphobia Victor _______________________________________________ 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
