On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 12:06 AM rjf <fate...@gmail.com> wrote: > > just curious when this ends. Python 4 awaits.
It's already ended. Python 4 is not going to be the major backwards-compatibility breaker that Python 3 was. It's just going to be the next release after 3.9, at which point we can also hopefully finally stop talking about "Python 3" and just call it "Python" again. This is similar to how Jinja2 is called Jinja2 because it was completely incompatible with Jinja 1.x and so needed a "different name" as it were. But now that Jinja2 is long-since the de facto Jinja, Jinja 3.0 will just be referred to as "Jinja" again; no more Jinja2. In the more extreme end of things Perl 6 has finally stopped being "Perl" altogether and is called Raku now. Fortunately even Python 3 is not as big a "disaster" from a backwards-incompatibility perspective that it hasn't necessitated a completely new name for the language; the "Python 3" distinction has only been relevant in the context of porting from Python 2 and now that that's mostly done in most of the community we can finally start to drop it soon... > On Monday, January 6, 2020 at 10:47:29 AM UTC-8, Nils Bruin wrote: >> >> On Monday, January 6, 2020 at 10:30:23 AM UTC-8, Eric Gourgoulhon wrote: >>> >>> >>> On the other hand, for the end user the major backwards-incompatibility >>> change already happened: a Python 2-only piece of code will break >>> immediately in any Sage 9.0 binary. Can we really say to the end user: "to >>> solve your issue, download SageMath sources and compile them with >>> ./configure --with-python=2" ? >> >> >> That's a different issue. If we can't say that, the appropriate fix is to >> host py2 binaries as well (but hide them a little bit). > > -- > 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/c372b39f-6232-48a5-bc98-e452c905ab1c%40googlegroups.com. -- 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/CAOTD34aFMAwGRF8kZTJRRCi_jfTxcNLYmEtGpMNfXApEHHiiEQ%40mail.gmail.com.
