[Python-ideas] Proposal to change Python version release cycle

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 04.11.2017 20:33, Nick Timkovich wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 4, 2017 at 10:44 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
> 
>> Just to clarify: Python 2.0 was called 2.0 because the BeOpen marketing
>> department thought it was good idea, not because there were major
>> incompatible changes going into that release.
>>
> 
> Alternative history question: if it was just 1.6, then would Python 3000,
> probably called "Python 2000/2.x" in that world, with all the fixes have
> happened sooner because you would have "ran out" (yes, v1.10 > v1.9) of
> numbers leading up to 2?

There was a Python 1.6, but this was cut during the Python 2.0
release cycle to make CNRI happy. It included everything
the CNRI team had developed after Python 1.5.2 before
moving on to BeOpen to form the "PythonLabs":

https://www.python.org/download/releases/1.6/

See "Overview of Changes Since 1.6" in
https://www.python.org/download/releases/2.0/
for a list of changes between 1.6 and 2.0.

The Python 1.6 never went into wide distribution, so for all
practical purposes the move was from Python 1.5.2 to
Python 2.0.

More on all this is available in the "What's New in Python 2.0"
document:

https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/2.0.html

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