On Jun 6, 2014, at 9:05 PM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > On 6/6/2014 6:47 PM, Nathaniel Smith wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 11:43 PM, Sturla Molden <sturla.mol...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> Brett Cannon <bcan...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Nope. A new minor release of Python is a massive undertaking which is why >>>> we have saved ourselves the hassle of doing a Python 2.8 or not giving a >>>> clear signal as to when Python 2.x will end as a language. >>> >>> Why not just define Python 2.8 as Python 2.7 except with a newer compiler? >>> I cannot see why that would be massive undertaking, if changing compiler >>> for 2.7 is neccesary anyway. >> >> This would require recompiling all packages on OS X and Linux, even >> though nothing had changed. > > If you are suggesting that a Windows compiler change should be invisible to > non-Windows users, I agree. > > Let us assume that /pcbuild remains for those who have vc2008 and that > /pcbuild14 is added (and everything else remains as is). Then the only other > thing that would change is the Windows installer released on Python.org. Call > than 2.7.9W or whatever on the download site and interactive startup message > to signal that something is different. > > -- > Terry Jan Reedy > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/donald%40stufft.io
How are packaging tools supposed to cope with this? AFAIK there is nothing in most of them to deal with a X.Y.Z release suddenly dealing with a different compiler. ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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