[Python-Dev] Proposal to revert r54204 (splitext change)

[glyph at divmod.com]

On 08:21 pm, martin at v.loewis.de wrote:
>Mike Krell schrieb:
>>FWIW, I agree completely with PJE's and glyph's remarks with respect
>>to expectations of stability, especially in a minor release.
>
>Not sure what you mean by "minor release". The change isn't proposed
>for the next bug fix release (2.5.1), but for the next major release
>(2.6). See PEP 6.

Common parlance for the parts of a version number is:
    major.minor.micro
See:
http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/api/twisted.python.versions.Version.html#__init__

Changing this terminology about Python releases to be more consistent 
with other projects would be a a subtle, but good shift towards a 
generally better attitude of the expectations of "minor" releases.
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