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

[Matěj Cepl]

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On 2014-01-19, 03:58 GMT, you wrote:
> But that doesn't stop other parties – Red Hat, ActiveState, 
> etc. – doing so for whatever customers are still interested in 
> compensating them for their work.

a) necessary disclaimer: I AM not speaking for my employer, just 
words out of my ass.
b) The point which is overlooked here, that people promoting 
python 2.8 are not speaking for STABILITY in the sense RHEL is 
stable. They want further DEVELOPMENT and CHANGES of Python to 
improve and react to the changed circumstances.

That is not, as far as I understand it, the business Red Hat is 
in. Our customers ask us to support Python 2.7.* (or 2.6.* for 
RHEL-6, and 2.4.* for RHEL-5) with API UNCHANGED as it is now so 
that their applications developed now for RHEL 7 (or RHEL 6, 5, 
etc.) are running UNCHANGED. They are usually NOT interested in 
further development and changing Python API. So, I don't see us 
as rooting for the further development of Python 2.* API.

Best,

Matěj

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