On Mar 10, 2014, at 2:21 PM, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> On 2014-03-10 17:08, R. David Murray wrote: >> 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.) >> > What does "irregardless" mean? http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/irregardless > _______________________________________________ > 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/donald%40stufft.io ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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