[Python-Dev] 2.7 Release? 2.7 == last of the 2.x line?

[Brett Cannon]

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 16:26, James Y Knight <foom at fuhm.net> wrote:
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> On Nov 2, 2009, at 6:24 PM, ssteinerX at gmail.com wrote:
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>>        +1 on 2.7 being the last of the 2.x series.  Enough already!
>
> -1. (not that it matters)
>
>> I, personally, haven't even written my first line of 3.x code, nor have I
>> had any good reason to.
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> Me neither.
>
>> If I saw the actual end of the line at 2.7, I would actually start looking
>> for 3.x versions of my favorite tools and would be much more inclined to
>> help push them along ASAP.
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> I'd probably keep using 2.7 to be able to keep using those tools, instead.
>
>> Right now, so much that I use on a daily basis doesn't even have a 3.x
>> roadmap, much less any sort of working implementation, that I don't see
>> switching to 3.x ever unless the 2.x line ends, and soon!
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>
> I don't see switching to 3.x anytime soon either. But what's the rush?
>
> 2.x seems to be a fine edition of Python, why not let it keep going to 2.8
> and beyond? Then you wouldn't have to switch to 3.x at all, and that'd save
> you a ton of work. (and save all the people you will have to convince to
> make a 3.x roadmap and do the port a ton of work too!)
>
> It really sounds like you're saying that switching to 3.x isn't worth the
> cost to you, but you want to force people (including yourself) to do so
> anyways, because ...?

... I think a decent number of us no longer want to maintain the 2.x
series. Honestly, if we go past 2.7 I am simply going to stop
backporting features and bug fixes. It's just too much work keeping so
many branches fixed.

-Brett