[Python-Dev] Continuing 2.x

[Benjamin Peterson]

2010/10/29 M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com>:
> Brett Cannon wrote:
>> 2010/10/28 Kristján Valur Jónsson <kristjan at ccpgames.com>:
>>> I'm not sure what I'm actually proposing.  But I certainly wasn't thinking of a new "fork" of python.  And not a new version 2.8 that gets all new 3.x features backported.
>>> I'm more thinking of a place where usability improvements, C API improvements, performance improvements, Library improvments, can go.
>>
>> It's called a fork. I realize you are trying to avoid that "dirty"
>> word, Kristján, and I appreciate it, but you are describing a fork.
>> Python 2.7 is the last sanctioned version of the Python 2.x series,
>> period. Any non-bugfix changes will not go in there as policy
>> dictates. And with there being no way Python 2.8 will happen (I know
>> we as a group have said "slim chance" since Python 3.0 came out,
>> uptake of Python 3 is such I am willing to personally say "never" for
>> a python-dev sanctioned Python 2.8), that means it will take a fork,
>> whether it be internal to CCP or public somewhere, it will still be a
>> fork.
>>
>> And as everyone has said so far (and with which I agree), that's fine.
>> As long as it is not called Python 2.8 -- EVE-Python 2.8 or some Monty
>> Python reference -- then that's fine.
>
> I don't see why we should not welcome a team of new developers who want
> to continue working on the 2.x series.

He's not saying we shouldn't welcome them; we just don't want to it
attached to python-dev.



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Regards,
Benjamin