[Python-Dev] Python 3.0.1

[Terry Reedy]

Michael Foord wrote:
> M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

>> Why don't we just mark 3.0.x as experimental branch and keep updating/
>> fixing things that were not sorted out for the 3.0.0 release ?! I think
>> that's a fair approach, given that the only way to get field testing
>> for new open-source software is to release early and often.
>>
>> A 3.1 release should then be the first stable release of the 3.x series
>> and mark the start of the usual deprecation mechanisms we have
>> in the 2.x series. Needless to say, that rushing 3.1 out now would
>> only cause yet another experimental release... major releases do take
>> time to stabilize.
>>
>>   
> +1
> 
> I don't think we do users any favours by being cautious in removing / 
> fixing things in the 3.0 releases.

I have two main reactions to 3.0.

1. It is great for my purpose -- coding algorithms.
   The cleaner object and text models are a mental relief for me.
   So it was a service to me to release it.
   I look forward to it becoming standard Python and have made my small 
contribution by helping clean up the 3.0 version of the docs.

2. It is something of a trial run that it should be fixed as soon as 
possible.  I seem to remember sometning from Shakespear(?) "If it twer 
done, tis best it twer done quickly".

Guido said something over a year ago to the effect that he did not 
expect 3.0 to be used as a production release, so I do not think it 
should to treated as one.  Label it developmental and people will not 
try to keep in use for years and years in the way that, say, 2.4 still is.

tjr