Hi Matúš, Matúš Valo schrieb am 06.12.22 um 15:58:

I have a thought about Cython 3.0. Based on discussion in [1] we should be done with all breaking changes. There is also [2] but PR is already there [3] (I am not sure what is the state of the PR though).

Is it possible to make final release (In case we postpone [2] to Cython 3.1 or 3.0.X)?

Or, at least, can we move closer to final release and release beta or RC version? I think it would be great to communicate to the community how far we are from final release (not in time but e.g. this is beta/RC release and will be followed by final release).

Additional reason for release of Cython 3.0 is that in near future (Python 3.12) two important components used by Cython will be removed: imp module and distutils. In my opinion, Cython 3.0 should be released early to ensure users transition period so we can avoid back-porting this changes to 0.29.X releases.

Any thoughts?

[1] https://github.com/cython/cython/issues/4022 [2] https://github.com/cython/cython/issues/4936 [3] https://github.com/cython/cython/pull/5016

Let's see that we get [3] merged to close [2], I think then we're ready for a new release, once 0.29.33 is out. As you wrote, we're through with the breaking changes for 3.0 then, so yes, a first beta release might be appropriate. Stefan