[Python-Dev] 2.7 Release? 2.7 == last of the 2.x line?

[Georg Brandl]

skip at pobox.com schrieb:
>     Martin> And if *2.6* becomes the last of the 2.x series?
> 
> With all due respect, I don't think you can make that decision now.  The
> time to have stated 2.6 would be the end of the 2.x line was when 2.6 was
> released.  At that point instead of opening up the trunk for changes you
> would have closed it off or merged the py3k branch to trunk.  2.6.0 was
> released over a year ago and there has been no effort to suppress bug fix or
> feature additions to trunk since then.  If you call 2.6 "the end of 2.x"
> you'll have wasted a year of work on 2.7 with about a month to go before the
> first 2.7 alpha release.

+1.

Georg