[Python-Dev] Python 3.0.1

[Georg Brandl]

Guido van Rossum schrieb:

> Frankly, I don't really believe the users for whom those rules were
> created are using 3.0 yet. Instead, I expect there to be two types of
> users: people in the educational business who don't have a lot of
> bridges to burn and are eager to use the new features; and developers
> of serious Python software (e.g. Twisted) who are trying to figure out
> how to port their code to 3.0. The first group isn't affected by the
> changes we're considering here (e.g. removing cmp or some obscure
> functions from the operator module). The latter group *may* be
> affected, simply because they may have some pre-3.0 code using old
> features that (by accident) still works under 3.0.
> 
> On the one hand I understand that those folks want a stable target. On
> the other hand I think they would prefer to find out sooner rather
> than later they're using stuff they shouldn't be using any more. It's
> a delicate balance for sure, and I certainly don't want to open the
> floodgates here, or rebrand 3.1 as 3.0.1 or anything like that. But I
> really don't believe that the strictest interpretation of "no new
> features" will benefit us for 3.0.1. Perhaps we should decide when to
> go back to a more strict interpretation of the rules based on the
> uptake of Python 3 compared to Python 2.

+1.

Georg

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