On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Apr 6, 2009, at 9:21 AM, Jesse Noller wrote: > >> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 4:33 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> wrote: >>> >>> On 2009-04-02 17:32, Martin v. Löwis wrote: >>>> >>>> I propose the following PEP for inclusion to Python 3.1. >>> >>> Thanks for picking this up. >>> >>> I'd like to extend the proposal to Python 2.7 and later. >>> >> >> -1 to adding it to the 2.x series. There was much discussion around >> adding features to 2.x *and* 3.0, and the consensus seemed to *not* >> add new features to 2.x and use those new features as carrots to help >> lead people into 3.0. > > Actually, isn't the policy just that nothing can go into 2.7 that isn't > backported from 3.1? Whether the actual backport happens or not is up to > the developer though. OTOH, we talked about a lot of things and my > recollection is probably fuzzy. > > Barry
That *is* the official policy, but there was discussions around no further backporting of features from 3.1 into 2.x, therefore providing more of an upgrade incentive -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
