[python-committers] Deprecation Policy PEP

[Barry Warsaw]

On Feb 02, 2016, at 03:33 PM, Ezio Melotti wrote:

>Changing the major version should be done for incompatible changes, and just
>doing it after 3.9 will probably just create confusion for both users that
>will wonder if it's incompatible with Python 3 and for things like the
>executable name.  Hopefully we won't need to jump to Python 4 for a long
>time.

Changing the major version number is a much bigger political and psychological
step than just bumping 3 to 4.  I say let's put it off as long as possible,
and there's nothing wrong with two digit minor versions.

Cheers,
-Barry