Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python <at> pearwood.info> writes: > > I expect that as excuses for not migrating get fewer, and the deadline for > Python 2.7 end-of-life starts to loom closer, more and more haters^W > Concerned People will whine about the lack of version 2.8 and ask for > *somebody else* to fork Python. > > I find it, hmmm, interesting, that so many of these Concerned People who say > that they're worried about splitting the Python community[1] end up > suggesting that we *split the community* into those who have moved forward > to Python 3 and those who won't.
Indeed. This would be extremely destructive (not to mention alienating the people doing *actual* maintenance and enhancements on Python-and-its-stdlib, of which at least 95% are committed to the original plan for 3.x to slowly supercede 2.x). Regards Antoine. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list