On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > On 1/23/2014 8:00 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> The noise asking for a 2.8 isn't going to die down any time soon. > > I suspect you meant "isn't going to die completely"
Sorry, yeah. "die off" is the expression I should have used. Presumably it *will* die down in between the renewals, otherwise we wouldn't recognize the renewals. >> It'll flare up again every time there's a significant event in the >> 2.7's end of life: when it goes into source-only support, when its >> python.org support ends entirely, when Debian's next version won't >> ship it, when Red Hat's ditto ditto, when it's no longer possible to >> get it from Ubuntu's repositories, etc, etc, etc. And no amount of >> "There will be no 2.8 unless you make it yourself!" will change that. >> >> That's my prediction. > > Sadly, mine too. Maybe the flareup peaks will gradually become lower. Or > maybe they will not be discussed so much on python-list. Maybe. I suspect that python-list and/or python-dev will see at least some of the traffic, though - when (say) Debian-next is stated as no longer shipping with any Python 2.7, there'll be a bunch of Debian users coming along asking why there won't be a 2.8, and repeat for any other major distribution in place of Debian. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
