Guido van Rossum wrote:
Exactly. The changes _are_ documented in detail, indeed, but in special documents which only serious users read when they about to migrate from one version to another. I'm thinking about users who use the language occasionally or even regularly, but not fanatic about following everything about versions -- they mainly rely on the Python Library Reference, or even the Python Language Reference.
Hm. People who don't read the detailed documents shouldn't expect to rely on details.
People do read the detailed documents, but not again and again every 6-8 months... heck, I work in the Python development team and don't even feel like I am up-to-date with all the changes going on in the core. If not even developers can follow the rate of change, how should a typical Python user feel ? Conclusion: I think that we need a migration guide for Python. This would solve a whole lot of these "rate of change" problems. The guide should complement the additions and changes to the other documentation and provide a single source of knowledge in that area. Currently, the only source we have in this area is the Misc/NEWS file and this doesn't provide any upgrade path hints or porting details. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg CEO eGenix.com Software GmbH ______________________________________________________________________ Company & Consulting: http://www.egenix.com/ Python Software: http://www.egenix.com/files/python/ Meet us at EuroPython 2002: http://www.europython.org/