[python-committers] Deprecation Policy PEP

[Barry Warsaw]

On Feb 03, 2016, at 11:03 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

>The point being, I'm not entirely sure I agree that a major version bump
>would *necessarily* be considered a big deal, let alone a barrier to
>adoption.

The problem isn't so much the major version bump, but what to do about the
command name on *nix.  I'm admittedly biased about that being "the"
problem. ;)

I think you'd get a lot of resistance if you named it 'python'.  You can't
name it 'python3'.  Maybe 'python4' would be okay, but please let's not do
that any time soon.  We're still in the midst of a transition to Python 3 and
I think anything that muddies those waters will just mean more FUD that some
of us front-liners have to contend with.

OTOH, I can see it being worth it for something really big like getting rid of
the GIL.

Cheers,
-Barry