[Python-ideas] Create Python 2.8 as a transition step to Python 3.x

[Nicholas Cole]

On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 2:22 PM, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 1:18 AM, Neil Schemenauer
> <nas-python at arctrix.com> wrote:
>> On 2014-01-19, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>> [Neil]
>>> > - if people install this new version of Python as the default, old
>>> >   scripts and programs will break. [...]
>>>
>>> - It gives people an excuse to avoid migrating, and as sure as the sun
>>> rises in the east, will lead to people calling for Python 2.9 a few
>>> years from now.
>>
>> That would be progress though.  My proposed 2.8 would have most of
>> the incompatible changes from 3.x so if people port it they will be
>> much closer to 3.x.
>
> I still haven't seen any evidence that porting half-way and then
> half-way again later is going to be less work than just biting the
> bullet and porting to 3.x (either sooner or later, whichever is more
> convenient).

All of these threads do remind me of the Achilles Paradox.