On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 10:10 PM, Mark H Harris <harrismh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 4/4/14 6:16 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: >> >> Fear/panic of a fork, where did that come from? It's certainly the >> first I've ever heard of it. >> > > hi Mark, it came from Ian; or, my interpretation of Ian. It comes out on the > net too (from various places). Here is Ian's quote, then my comment: > > >> Eventually users still on 2.x will need to upgrade, but you >> can't force them to do it on your own schedule. That path will just >> end up driving them to another language, or to a fork of 2.7. > > > The sentiment behind this last quote is essentially fear (and that is > natural). Its basically the tension between (I'm speaking as the royal we > here) we don't want folks to be driven away from Cpython as a language, and > we don't want them to fork the Cpython interpreter, so we'll take a very > casual and methodically conservative approach to nudging people towards a > Cpython3 migration route ( I am speaking not for the community, just > hypothetically trying to get at the gist of Ian's quote); please forgive me > if I didn't quite get it.
A fork is undesirable because it fragments the community. I don't think "fear" or "panic" are the right words for it. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
