On Thu, 15 Aug 2013 08:29:35 -0400 "R. David Murray" <rdmur...@bitdance.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Aug 2013 11:22:14 +0200, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> > wrote: > > On Thu, 15 Aug 2013 11:16:20 +0200 > > Victor Stinner <victor.stin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 2013/8/15 Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net>: > > > > We don't have any substantial change in store for an eventual "Python > > > > 4", so it's quite a remote hypothesis right now. > > > > > > I prefered the transition between Linux 2 and Linux 3 (no major > > > change, just a "normal" release except the version), rather than the > > > transition between KDE 3 and KDE 4 (in short, everything was broken, > > > the desktop was not usable). > > > > > > I prefer to not start a list of things that we will make the > > > transition from Python 3 to Python 4 harder. Can't we do small changes > > > between each Python release, even between major versions? > > > > That's exactly what I'm saying. > > But some changes cannot be made without breakage, e.g. the unicode > > transition. Then it makes sense to bundle all breaking changes in a > > single version change. > > A number of us (I don't know how many) have clearly been thinking about > "Python 4" as the time when we remove cruft. This will not cause any > backward compatibility issues for anyone who has paid heed to the > deprecation warnings, but will for those who haven't. Which is why we shouldn't silence deprecation warnings. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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
