On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 16:06:22 -0000, Brett Cannon <bcan...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon Mar 10 2014 at 11:50:54 AM, Victor Stinner <victor.stin...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > 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. > > > > I disagree. I don't think 3->4 will be as drastic as it was for 2->3, but I > view Python 4 as a chance to drop all deprecated APIs that we left in for > convenience in porting from Python 2 (e.g. the imp module). We can't put a > removal date as we can't really declare Python 2 dead for the whole > community. But when Python 4 does come out next decade I would like to say > that we have moved entirely beyond Python 2 as a team and thus don't turn > into Java and support deprecated code forever.
We had this discussion a bit ago, and my sense was that we tentatively decided that we were just going to deprecate and remove things as appropriate, irregardless of version number. I used "4.0" in my message about 'U' as a shorthand for "some time after python2 is no longer an issue". Sorry for the confusion. (That said, I do see some merit to doing some extra cleaning at the 4.0 boundary, just for mental convenience.) --David _______________________________________________ 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
