John Roth wrote: > "Peter Maas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> George Sakkis schrieb: >> >>> Given that the latest 2.x python will be 2.9 >> >> >> Why not 2.13 or 2.4711? Version strings are sequences of arbitrary >> integers separated by dots and not decimal numbers, or are they? > > > Because Guido said (somewhere) that he didn't want to go over > release 2.9.
It's actually (repeated) in the talk linked to earlier. The rationale is not touched on, though. George Sakkis wrote: > Given that the latest 2.x python will be 2.9 and that 3.0 may be > released in parallel with 2.5-2.9 > (http://www.python.org/doc/essays/ppt/euro2004/euro2004.ppt), I guess > this *someday* will be no later than 2015-16, probably sooner than > that. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
