12 years of Python and only at v2.2

[Brad Hards]

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On Wed, 4 Dec 2002 08:54, Manuel M. Garcia wrote:
> What makes Python so good for integration? Finch and other believers
> in Python note several characteristics:
> (edit)
> 3. Python is high-quality: While it's matured for over a decade now,
> its developmental philosophy is so conservative it only recently
> reached version 2.2.
About all you can say about version numbering is that is normally 
monotonically increasing.
Conservative development philosphy would be measured in terms of API breakage, 
release testing, bugs reported per user, and a whole stack of other 
qualitative things.
For example, I've taken over maintainance of a package that the original 
author just numbered -1 and -2. I used -3, -4rc1 and -4. What does that tell 
you about my development philosophy? Nothing, I'd guess.

Brad

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