Thanks for the post, Laura. I agree -- Python 2.3 won't be ready for a long time, and I recommend to the Debian folks that they standardize on Python 2.2. For now, that will be Python 2.2.1; a maintenance release, 2.2.2 will be issued some time later this year.
I don't expect 2.3 to reach maturity until mid 2003. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) [Context:] > Subject: Re: Move to python 2.2 as default release? > From: Laura Creighton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 15:25:01 +0200 > X-Spam-Level: > > >>On Aug 06, Torsten Landschoff wrote: > >>As the new upstream of python-gnome (for GNOME 2) needs python 2.2 for > >>building I am wondering when python 2.2 will get the default version > >>for Debian. Any insights? > > > >I believe a consensus was reached on debian-python that we would move > >to Python 2.3 as the next default Python, skipping 2.2 entirely. > > > > > >My recommendation would be to separately maintain a python > >2.2-compatible python-gnome and a <2.1 compatible version, at least > >until the 2.3 release. > > > > > >Chris > >-- > >Chris Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.lordsutch.com/chris/ > > > >Instructor and Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science, Univ. of Mississippi > >208 Deupree Hall - 662-915-5765 > > The new Python Business Forum (www.python-in-business.com) is > collaborating with the Python developers to produce Python-in-a-Tie, > a business-targetted release of Python. This is a 'Sumo-Release', > which will include other useful Python libraries and programs which > are not part of the standard Python releases. What we want is a release we > tell our cyustomers to run which will give them 18 months or so > during which there is no need for them, as users, not developers, to > upgrade a to a newer version of Python. Then we will target a next > release, and to be the next Python-in-a-Tie. I am the Chairman of > the Python-in-a-Tie SIG, and the Python-in-a-Tie release is going > to be based on 2.2, not 2.1 or 2.3. Thus 2.2 is the release which > we are telling Python developers is the release which they should > write for. Therefore I think that skipping the 2.2 release in > favour of the 2.3 would be a mistake. > > Please cc any discussion and replies to me since I do not read > debian-devel. Thanks very much, > > Laura Creighton >
