On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 9:58 PM, Benjamin Peterson <benja...@python.org>wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 9, 2014, at 18:43, Chris Angelico wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Benjamin Peterson <benja...@python.org > > > > wrote: > > > Planning-on-making-2.7-releases-'til-the-cows-come-home-ly yours, > > > > Past 2.7.9, will you make 2.7.10 etc, or does that violate other > > policies? > > I'm not aware that two digit minor version numbers violate anything but > some people's aesthetic senses. > In particular, mine, but if it's better than stopping at that point, I'll be fine. > > What will a lack of provided installers do to Windows support? It's > > easy enough on Linux to say "either build it from source, or let your > > upstream package provider build it for you", but AIUI, most Windows > > users want to get a ready-made binary. > > It's not that I don't think Windows installers are important, but rather > that Martin has indicated he is (completely reasonably) not interested > in indefinitely making 2.7 installers. > Yeah, this was mentioned a few times. I quipped to Nick that Red Hat's biggest contribution might be to take over the Windows Installer, but he didn't bite. :-) But there's always the PSF. We may try to find some folks we trust with relevant expertise to volunteer their time in return for a stipend from the PSF for this and some other unglamorous tasks. > > Apologies if these questions were answered at the Summit. Montreal's > > treatment of thirty-person-parties at one hour's notice may or may not > > be considered a bug to be fixed in 2.7, but its geographic barrier to > > Australians is definitely a feature addition. And will need to be > > thoroughly bikeshedded on -ideas before implementation (can the time > > machine be used to travel in relative dimensions in space?) > Only across branches of an AST though. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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