On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com> wrote:

2014/1/7 Eli Bendersky <eliben@gmail.com>:

> Are we really that much in need of convert-to-clinic *now*?

Why not creating the 3.4 branch after the beta1 and develop Python 3.5
in default during the stabilisation process of Python 3.4? It's like
many other softwares are developed.

Only bugfixes would be accepted in the branch 3.4, as we do currently
with 3.3 branch.

I asked this exact question a few weeks ago, but got the answer that this is the way Python does it. Fair enough, but huge amount of churn generated by a not-yet-decided-how-it-should-work Argument Clinic is really unrelated and totally out of place between beta2 and the final release of a major Python version.

Eli