-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Raymond Hettinger wrote: > [Guido van Rossum] >> . We used to have releases once a year and >> we got really big serious feedback from our biggest users that the >> release cycle was going too fast. We discussed it amply and agreed on >> a minimum time of 18 months between releases. > > If the language moratorium goes into effect, would shorter release cycles > still have a negative impact? Do people possibly want slower changes > to the language and faster updates to the library? > > I don't know the answer. Just asking how this matches up with the > feedback you have gotten previously.
Depends on the kind of changes you are talking about: backward- incompatible ones (like the hashlib / medusa ones in 2.6, for instance) are likely going to be unpopular with the "Python with a tie" crowd (I think that was the name of the IPC BoF from which the original feedback coalesced). Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkr5tC0ACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ4QzQCg1eUsdnAEyIficxjeFQevR9ul pv0An2qpDswkGhqAHkM2REtGE9Zpz8+V =t5kK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
