On Jun 14, 9:35 am, John Salerno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just curious if people put up any resistance to 2.0 like some people do > for 3.0. Was it as big of a change in the language, or was the > transition smoother? It seems silly for anyone to say they would prefer > to stick with 1.x versions at this point, so perhaps we'll get there > with 3.0 eventually too. > > Anyway, I'm just trying to figure out if the whole "I don't like 3.0" > mentality (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.
A lot of the bigger changes and warts that have emerged in the past decade or so of the 2.0 series (text encoding madness anyone?) have been tabled until the 3.0 transition, so any compatibility breaks for the sake of fixing inconsistencies and ugliness in Python have been accruing and are finally being applied in 3.0. The 1.5->2.0 transition was a little strange, but I think a large reason that it was less painful was because the language was younger, less established and had far fewer people programming in it (and correspondingly smaller codebases) to transition over. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
