2011/11/29 Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com>: > On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 1:13 AM, Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote: >> On Nov 29, 2011, at 01:59 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: >> >>>Well, that's why I think the version number components are not >>>correctly named. I don't think any of the 2.x or 3.x releases can be >>>called "minor" by any stretch of the word. A quick glance at >>>http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/index.html should be enough. >> >> Agreed, but it's too late to change it. I look at it as the attributes of >> the >> namedtuple being evocative of the traditional names for the digit positions, >> not the assignment of those positions to Python's semantics. > > Hmm, I wonder about that. Perhaps we could add a second set of names > in parallel with the "major.minor.micro" names: > "series.feature.maint". > > That would, after all, reflect what is actually said in practice: > - release series: 2.x, 3.x (usually used in a form like "In the 3.x > series, X is true. In 2.x, Y is true) > - feature release: 2.7, 3.2, etc > - maintenance release: 2.7.2, 3.2.1, etc > > I know I tend to call feature releases major releases and I'm far from > alone in that. The discrepancy in relation to sys.version_info is > confusing, but we can't make 'major' refer to a different field > without breaking existing programs. But we *can* change: > >>>> sys.version_info > sys.version_info(major=2, minor=7, micro=2, releaselevel='final', serial=0) > > to instead read: > > sys.version_info(series=2, feature=7, maint=2, releaselevel='final', serial=0) > > while allowing 'major' as an alias of 'series', 'minor' as an alias of > 'feature' and 'micro' as an alias of 'maint'. Nothing breaks, and we'd > have started down the path towards coherent terminology for the three > fields in the version numbers (by accepting that 'major' has now > become irredeemably ambiguous in the context of CPython releases). > > This idea of renaming all three fields has come up before, but I > believe we got stuck on the question of what to call the first number > (i.e. the one I'm calling the "series" here).
Can we drop this now? Too much effort for very little benefit. We call releases what we call releases. -- Regards, Benjamin _______________________________________________ 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
