[Cython] Cython 0.29 – or 29.0 ?

Dima Pasechnik dimpase+github at gmail.com
Fri Aug 17 04:58:27 EDT 2018


I'd vote for sanity over marketing, i.e. 1.0.


On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 11:53 AM James C. McPherson
<James.McPherson at oracle.com> wrote:
>
>
> 1.0 runs the risk of hitting "never install a 1.0 release" habits.
>
> Jumping to 29.0 would not, imnsho, be such an issue because people
> are used to the rapid cadence of Firefox, Thunderbird and Chrome
> releases. The flip side of 29.0 would be the question "when are you
> announcing your LTS version?"
>
> James
>
>
> On 08/16/18 08:48 AM, Robert Bradshaw wrote:
> > If we're going to ditch the 0.x, I'd go for 1.0 as well. I'm a huge fan of
> > semantic versioning.
> >
> > The primary reasons we kept the 0.x scheme were that
> >
> > * We wanted full compatibility with CPython (we're nearly there, or at
> > least it's safe to say the differences are on par with those between
> > different versions and implementations of Python), and
> > * We wanted the flexibility to possibly jettison archaic features of the
> > language or otherwise clean things up.
> >
> > It's worth revisiting to see if either of these are still relevant (*and*
> > likely to be worked on in the near future).
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 10:40 PM, Jeroen Demeyer <J.Demeyer at ugent.be
> > <mailto:J.Demeyer at ugent.be>> wrote:
> >
> >     I vote for 1.0
> >
> >     Version 29.0 sounds too much like marketing.
> >
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