On 07/06/2014 02:13, Donald Stufft wrote:
On Jun 6, 2014, at 9:05 PM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote:
On 6/6/2014 6:47 PM, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 11:43 PM, Sturla Molden <sturla.mol...@gmail.com> wrote:
Brett Cannon <bcan...@gmail.com> wrote:
Nope. A new minor release of Python is a massive undertaking which is why
we have saved ourselves the hassle of doing a Python 2.8 or not giving a
clear signal as to when Python 2.x will end as a language.
Why not just define Python 2.8 as Python 2.7 except with a newer compiler?
I cannot see why that would be massive undertaking, if changing compiler
for 2.7 is neccesary anyway.
This would require recompiling all packages on OS X and Linux, even
though nothing had changed.
If you are suggesting that a Windows compiler change should be invisible to
non-Windows users, I agree.
Let us assume that /pcbuild remains for those who have vc2008 and that
/pcbuild14 is added (and everything else remains as is). Then the only other
thing that would change is the Windows installer released on Python.org. Call
than 2.7.9W or whatever on the download site and interactive startup message to
signal that something is different.
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Terry Jan Reedy
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How are packaging tools supposed to cope with this? AFAIK there is nothing in
most of them to deal with a X.Y.Z release suddenly dealing with a different
compiler.
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Potentially completely stupid suggestion to get people thinking (or die
laughing :) , but would it be possible to use hex digits, such that
2.7.A was the first release on Windows with the different compiler?
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