Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> writes: > On 14/04/2014 14:51, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: >> Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com>: >> >>> If you're going to do that, why not just port your code to 3.x and >>> be done with it? Who has the resources to put hours and hours of dev >>> time into a 2.8? > > The people who haven't had enough time over the last eight years to > plan their upgrade path to 3.x. Eight years comes from the date of the > first message here https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/ > which was 21/03/2006, so feel free to come up with a different answer > for the time span.
Would it help if we adopted a non-numeric name for this product to support eXisting Python for those who were notified some years ago that Python 2 would be superseded? How about Python XP? I thought not ;-) -- Pete Forman -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
