"AM" == Alex Martelli
writes:
AM> It would help to some degree if the "stable" releases could be AM> shown to have SOME kind of enhancement. Not as much as if AM> language changes which did not break existing correct code AM> could also be there, but some. Modules such as email are a AM> big part of the draw of 2.2, for example (not quite as big as AM> language-level enhancements, but big). And of course, I spend a non-trivial amount of effort to maintain a separate email package that is compatible with Python 2.1 and Python 2.2. But I consciously gave up Python 2.0 (or earlier) support because it became obvious to me that I wanted /some/ of the newer features. But that's really difficult, considering it means I have to keep two cvs repositories in sync (and yes, I've got a bunch of changes that need merging back into Python 2.3). -Barry