On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 12:51 AM, Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote: > I agree with the comments that the appellation for "simply the next > version after 3.9" should be 3.10 and not 4.0. Everybody I know > considers SW versions numbers to be dot-separated tuples, not > floating point numbers. >
Agreed. However, by the time 3.9 comes out, there'll have been all those years of changes. "The version after 3.9" would be a good time to remove stuff that's been deprecated since 3.3 or 3.6 or whatever; technically, that's breaking backward compat (hence 4.0 rather than 3.10), but in effect, it's no more breakage than a minor release would give you (since you should have stopped using deprecated APIs several versions ago). So there's still value in going to 4.0 around about ten versions after 3.0; but it doesn't necessarily have to happen exactly then. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
