On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 7:23 PM Travis Scrimshaw <tsc...@ucdavis.edu> wrote: > > I agree that the Python3 only version of Sage should be called 10.0 given the > large backwards incompatible changes that result from the Python3 change. > Furthermore, I also concur that we should release a version 9.1 (on an > accelerated schedule) that is our official deprecation version telling people > they will need to adapt their code in the next version.
This would be the right thing to do from a software maintenance standpoint and from a user-facing standpoint. The vast majority of Sage users are NOT developers and this community has too much a habit in general of moving fast and breaking things for the short-term benefit of power-users/developers (who in general are more able to run their own builds as needed). As it is I think we rushed too fast into a Python 3 default release but in that case I think it was necessary and unavoidable. Now that that's out (grace à Frédéric) we can take a minute to reflect on how that transition goes for users and make the first Python 3-only release even stronger. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/CAOTD34b4vSqeaoTaQaFMO5V-RjKfTahYZ%3DSDJS1oE_NET68jBg%40mail.gmail.com.
