[Python-Dev] PEP 0404 and VS 2010

[Kristján Valur Jónsson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Python-Dev [mailto:python-dev-
> bounces+kristjan=ccpgames.com at python.org] On Behalf Of Christian Tismer
> Sent: 20. nóvember 2013 23:37
> To: Barry Warsaw; python-dev at python.org
> Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 0404 and VS 2010
> 
> Hey Barry,
> 
> In any case, my question still stands, and I will do something with the
> Stackless branch by end of November. Please influence me ASAP, I don't
> intend to do any harm, but that problem is caused simply by my existence,
> and I want to stick with that for another few decades.
> 
> If I think something must be done, then I have my way to do it.
> If you have good reasons to prevent this, then you should speak up in the
> next 10 days, or it will happen. Is that ok with you?
> 
> Hugs -- your friend Chris


I'd like to add here that at PyCon 2011 (if memory serves me right) I got a verbal
agreement from many of you that there would be no objection to me creating
an _unofficial_ "2.8" fork of python.  It could even be hosted on hg.python.org.
I forget if we decided on a name for it, but I remember advocating it as "Python classic."

For reasons of work and others, I never got round to creating that branch but
recently Stackless development has picked up the pace to the point where we
feel it necessary to break with strict 2.7 conformance.

Cheers,

Kristján