Jeremy Hylton [jeremy@beopen.com] wrote:
Perhaps I am too easy-going, but I consider the 2.0 release a 'dot-release' masquerading as a major revision. It might be a little silly, but it seems even sillier to preserve a naming scheme that makes users think that the technology is immature.
I have to say I always thought Guido was a bit conservative... 1.3 -> 1.4 would have been a 3.x release from any "other company", and certainly 1.4 to 1.5 has some major new things (exception changes, etc). I think X.Y means X MAY introduce backward incompatibility, but doesn't have to. It just means major new functionality... I've seen a few of our customers go... "But wait, it's only at 1.5"... yeah, so? Chris -- | Christopher Petrilli | petrilli@amber.org