On Wed, Apr 9, 2014, at 18:46, Senthil Kumaran wrote: > On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 9:22 PM, Benjamin Peterson > <benja...@python.org>wrote: > > > Instead dealing 2.7 will just be completely optional for core > > developers. (The much anticipated vendor support arrives at this point.) > > > > Could you clarify your thoughts a bit on the "completely optional" part. > What if vendors take a really long time to come to support the latest > minor > release? AFAIK, the discussion centered around keep it "alive", for some > definition of alive. We did not define what do we mean by 'alive'.
Alive means I will keep making 2.7 releases while there are still interesting changes to release. > > Bringing back all the security related enhancement features seem ok. > Guido's last email talks about all the other compatibility goodies /tools > targeting 2.7 that may or may not go with 2.7 code base itself. I consider the security enhancement/feature question to be in the domain of PEP 466. If security stuff lands in the 2.7 branch, it will get released eventually is all I'm saying. _______________________________________________ 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
