[Python-Dev] Please use __progress__ instead of __future__ (was Other situations like this)

[Peter Funk]

Hi,

Tim Peters:
[...]
> Offhand, I suggest to create a real Lib/__future__.py, and let import code
> get generated as always.  The purpose of __future__.py is to record release
> info in an *obvious* place to look for it 
[...]

I believe __future__ is a bad name.  What appears today as the bright
shining future will be the distant dusty past of tomorrow.  But the
name of the module is not going to change anytime soon.  right?

Please call it __progress__ or __history__ or even __python_history__
or come up with some other name.  What about __python_bloat__ ? <duck ;-)>.  

In my experience of computing it is a really bad idea to call anything
'new', 'old', 'future', '2000' or some such because those names last much
longer than you would have believed at the time the name was choosen.

Regards, Peter
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