[Python-Dev] 1.6 job list

[Guido van Rossum]

> Greg Stein writes:
>  > Or in the "network" package that was suggested a month ago?

[Fred]
>   +1

Which reminds me of another reason to wait: coming up with the right
package hierarchy is hard.  (E.g. I find network too long; plus, does
htmllib belong there?)

>   That doesn't bother me, but I tend to be a little conservative
> (though usually not as conservative as Guido on such matters).  I
> *would* like to decided theat 1.7 will be fully packagized, and not
> wait until 2.0.  As long as 1.7 is a "testing the evolutionary path"
> release, I think that's the right thing to do.

Agreed.

At the SD conference I gave a talk about the future of Python, and
there was (again) a good suggestion about forwards compatibility.
Starting with 1.7 (if not sooner), several Python 3000 features that
necessarily have to be incompatible (like 1/2 yielding 0.5 instead of
0) could issue warnings when (or unless?) Python is invoked with a
compatibility flag.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)