Paul Prescod wrote:
Python cannot die while its license permits anyone to improve it and there are still thousands of users. If Python were in any danger, there are dozens of people who could take over its advancement, including its current maintainer, Guido, at his new job!
Tim once (0.9-winking-ly) mentioned the possibility of voting with the "keyboard by grabbing the Python source and making your own release". I don't wanna do this on my own (and get zapped from a lightning bolt thrown by the powers that are), but what would be the pros and cons of an inofficial (maybe 1.8?) alpha-in-between-release? I think the CVS tree is in a relative stable state, so if this is going to take another 1 1/2 months, this might be a good time. just-thinking-and-winking-ly y'rs Peter -- Peter Schneider-Kamp ++47-7388-7331 Herman Krags veg 51-11 mailto:peter@schneider-kamp.de N-7050 Trondheim http://schneider-kamp.de