On 2008-06-14, John Salerno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just curious if people put up any resistance to 2.0 like some > people do for 3.0.
Not that I remember. > Was it as big of a change in the language, or was the > transition smoother? It was pretty much a non-event. The changes from 1.x->2.0 were mostly all backwards-compatible. > Anyway, I'm just trying to figure out if the whole "I don't > like 3.0" mentality >From what I can tell, 2.x->3.0 is going to be a much larger change than was 1.x->2.0. A lot of code is going break (that wasn't true with the 1.x->2.0 transition). > (of some people, not all of course) is merely a result of it > still being new and not even released yet, and will completely > go away after a year or two; or if there really are such > drastic changes that people won't want to adopt it at all. My prediction is that it will be pretty much universally adopted. It may take a couple years and will involve some bitching an moaning, but it's pretty much an identity that open-source + Usenet == bitching and moaning Some of us will always find something to complain about... -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! I hope I bought the at right relish ... zzzzzzzzz visi.com ... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list