Le 25/09/2018 à 21:30, Yury Selivanov a écrit : > What's the current plan for what version of Python we release after 3.9? > > The reason I'm asking this is because I frequently need to refer to > *that version* of Python in the documentation, especially when I'm > deprecating APIs or behavior. Right now I'm saying "Python 4.0" > implying that 4.0 will be released right after 3.9. > > I've heard multiple opinions on this subject. One of them is that we > should release 4.0 when we have a major new change, like removal of > the GIL or introduction of a JIT compiler. On the other hand, we have > no estimate when we have such a change. We also don't want Python 4.0 > to be backwards incompatible with Python 3.0 (at least not at the > scale of 2 vs 3). So to me, it seems logical that we simply release > Python 4.0 after Python 3.9. After all, after 3.9 Python will be > drastically different from 3.0 and from 2.7. It sounds better. :)
Many people have bad memories of the Py2->3 transition, so I think we should avoid triggering their sensitivities by announcing a Py4 if there's nothing, in terms of changes, to justify the jump. So my preference would be on 3.10. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers Code of Conduct: https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
