Except that we should skip version 4 and go directly to 5 in homage to http://www.montypython.net/scripts/HG-handgrenade.php.
On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 9:13 AM Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 8:57 AM, Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote: > >> On Dec 02, 2015, at 08:35 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote: >> >> >I wholeheartedly agree with what Nick writes there >> >> As do I. >> >> One interesting point will be what *nix calls the /usr/bin thingie for >> Python >> 4. It would seem weird to call it /usr/bin/python3 and symlink it to say >> /usr/bin/python4.0 but maybe that's the most practical solution. OTOH, by >> 2023, Python 2 will at worst be in source-only security release mode, if >> not >> finally retired so maybe we can reclaim /usr/bin/python by then. Oh >> well, PEP >> 394 will hash all that out I'm sure. >> > > Maybe the criteria for switching to 4 would be that all traces of 2 are > gone. > > >> One other potentially disruptive change would be when Python's Einstein, >> er >> David Beazley, finally cracks the nut of the GIL. Should that require a >> new >> backward incompatible C API, Python 4.0 would be the time to do it. >> > > There would still have to be a backward compatibility API for a very long > time. So I don't see why this particular change (however eagerly > anticipated! :-) should force a major version bump. > > -- > --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) > _______________________________________________ > 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/greg%40krypto.org >
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