On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 5:11 AM, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: > Is it really any difference in maintenance if you just stop applying updates > to > 2.7 and switch to 2.8? If 2.8 is really just 2.7 with a new compiler then > there > should be no functional difference between doing that and doing a 2.7.whatever > except all of the tooling that relies on the compiler not to change in micro > releases won’t suddenly break and freak out.
If the only difference between 2.7 and 2.8 is the compiler used on Windows, what happens on Linux and other platforms? A Python 2.8 would have to be materially different from Python 2.7, not just binarily incompatible on one platform. ChrisA _______________________________________________ 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
