[Python-Dev] 3.2.0

[Brett Cannon]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 09:34, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> I would like the next release called 3.2.0 rather than just 3.2.
>
> 'x.y' is known to be ambiguous and confusing.
>
> In most actual usages, I believe, it refers to the latest x.y.z release. On
> the site, the 'x.y' docs are almost always the latest version of the docs
> (actually x.y.z+additional fixes). In discussions on python-list, for
> instance, advice to use 'x.y' means to download and use the latest x.y.z
> release, not the initial x.y(.0) release. Similarly on the tracker, 'what
> happens with x.y' means the same.
>
> So the alternate use of 'x.y' to mean x.y(.0) is both confusing and
> correctable, at least for the future.

With all of the writing I have been doing recently, I agree that
disambiguating 3.2.0 from 3.2 is a good thing.