On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Mensanator <mensana...@aol.com> wrote: > On Apr 10, 5:45 pm, Michael Ströder <mich...@stroeder.com> wrote: >> average wrote: >> >> On behalf of the Python development team, I'm merry to announce the first >> >> beta >> >> release of Python 2.7. >> >> >> Python 2.7 is scheduled (by Guido and Python-dev) to be the last major >> >> version >> >> in the 2.x series. Though more major releases have not been absolutely >> >> ruled >> >> out, it's likely that the 2.7 release will an extended period of >> >> maintenance for >> >> the 2.x series. >> >> > May I propose that the developers consider keeping this release *beta* >> > until after the present Python moratorium? That is, don't let it be >> > marked as *official* until after, say, Python 3.3. >> >> > There are so many features taken from 3.0 that I fear that it will >> > postpone its adoption interminably >> >> Whether 3.x is adopted by developers is IMO not influenced by the 2.7 release >> schedule. At least the effect is highly speculative. So please simply release >> 2.7 when it's ready. > > 3.x won't be adopted by developers until it's fixed. As of now, it's > seriously broken and unsuitable for production.
In what ways do you consider it broken? Cheers, Chris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
