[Python-Dev] Shorter release schedule?

[Bill Janssen]

Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Settling on 18 months would probably work though - those that crave
> stability can then use every alternate version and only upgrade every 3
> years

I wonder about that.  Lots of people are forced to upgrade by new
language features: decorators, list comprehensions, set literals, etc.,
that are required by external libraries that they use.  One of the huge
strengths of Python is the external library community.  Interesting
tension there...

Bill