On Jun 6, 2014, at 3:33 PM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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/donald%40stufft.io Well it’d contain bug fixes and whatever other sorts of things you’d put into a 2.7.whatever release. So they’d still want to upgrade to 2.8 since that’ll have bug fixes. ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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