On Mar 10, 2011, at 04:12 PM, Josselin Mouette wrote: >Le jeudi 10 mars 2011 à 09:00 -0500, Scott Kitterman a écrit : >> The upstream Python position is (I'll paraphrase), "There will not be >> a Python 2.8. If there is a new feature release of Python 2 it will be >> because someone forked it - it's Free software, so we can't prevent >> that". >> >> There are a lot of things we need to worry about in the Debian Python >> world, but I don't think python2.8 is one of them. > >Now consider that many applications do not support Python micro versions >being > 9. This means that if Python 2.7.9 ever needs to be updated, it >will be to 2.8.0.
It's true that Guido does not like '10' in version numbers. He famously said there will never be a Python 2.10. It's also true that Python 2.7 will live longer than a normal Python 2 release. But I'm fairly certain that if there's ever a micro release > 2.7.9, it'll be called 2.7.10 rather than 2.8 (2.7.A? naw, that's crazy talk:). Applications that can't handle the two digit micro version number have plenty of time to fix that particular bug. <wink> -Barry
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