Carl Banks: > There is also no hope someone will fork Python 2.x and continue it in > perpetuity. Well, someone might try to fork it, but they won't be > able to call it Python.
Over time there may be more desire from those unable or unwilling to upgrade to 3.x to work on improvements to 2.x, perhaps leading to a version 2.8. One of the benefits of open source is that you are not trapped into following vendor decisions like Microsoft abandoning classic VB in favour of VB.NET. It would be unreasonable for the core developers to try to block this. Refusing use of the Python trademark for a version that was reasonably compatible in both directions would be particularly petty. Neil -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
