Barry A. Warsaw [bwarsaw@cnri.reston.va.us] wrote:
All very cool things that could easily wait until 1.7. After all, what's in a number? If, as Andrew puts forth, getting a stable Python release with Unicode is very important for Python's future positioning, then I say let's go with his more modest list, mainly Unicode, sre, and Distutils. We've already got string meths, tons of library improvements, and sundry other things. That's a good enough laundry list for the next release.
Heck, Python is infinately more conservative in its numbering than a lot of projects. All that was mentioned would normally be enough to call it 2.0 easily. :-) Modesty can be counter productive in PR business...also there is the issue of having two copies of 1.5.x installed at the same time, which with Unicode could be a manjor consideraton for some of us. For me, numbering has always been (and I try and keep it this way with Zope): X.Y.Z X = structural changes, backward incompaibility Y = new features Z = bug fixes only Chris -- | Christopher Petrilli | petrilli@amber.org