On 03/10/2014 02:21 PM, MRAB 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?
Read it as "without regard to". _______________________________________________ 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
