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

[Guido van Rossum]

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Carl Trachte <ctrachte at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/4/09, ssteinerX at gmail.com <ssteinerx at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Maybe the 3.x line should just be put out of our misery, merged back
>> to 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, and proceed as Glyph suggested in passing with
>> increasing levels of deprecation until it just turns into 3.x on its
>> own by running out of numbers.
>
> <delurk>
> As a user, I'm horrified.  Granted, I'm not the most high powered
> user, but . . .
> my employer is already providing me with a 3.0 Python version on one
> of my work computers with the expectation that I'll be using it more
> and more.
>
> Sorry to butt in, but is this a joke?  I thought all this was hashed
> out prior to inventing python 3.0.
> </delurk>

I have no idea who "ssteinerX" is. He certainly doesn't speak for the
core developers.

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