On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 14:50:36 +0100, Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 21/09/2012 14:13, xliiv wrote:
>> Why is this '2 years release cycle'? >> >> > Because there aren't enough volunteers to get it done any faster? Because if it were any faster, it would piss off a lot of people. Python's release cycle is actually closer to 18 months for minor releases (3.2 -> 3.3, for example), and 10 years for major releases (2.x -> 3.x). But consider, C and C++ don't have minor releases *at all*. The last versions of those two languages are C99 and C+98 -- that's FOURTEEN YEARS since the last version of C++. And Java hasn't had a major feature update since 2006. For a programming language with a lot of corporate use, Python already seems like it changes at the drop of a hat. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
