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

[P.J. Eby]

At 12:51 AM 11/4/2009 -0500, Glyph Lefkowitz wrote:
>With the 2.x series, users and operating systems seem to move on
>fairly rapidly, because dependencies generally continue to work if you
>upgrade just one version.  This isn't quite as formal a requirement as
>I would like (warnings get generated, unit tests fail, things do
>break) but in practice, users can rely on it for most functionality.
>If 3.x could be broken into a series of transitions like that, where
>you can upgrade one version, fix some stuff, then upgrade another
>version, even if you couldn't actually support more than 2 versions at
>once, I think that we could pick up the migration pace to the point
>where we might actually be using 3.x syntax in a few years.  Having a
>2.x series which goes to 2.9 and then stops isn't *quite* the same
>thing as having one that moves over continuously to some 3.x version,
>but it does seem to me that by that point the chasm between versions
>will have narrowed to a crack, and the migration will be a little hop
>over it rather than the currently-required great flying leap.

+1 (I actually thought this was the original plan.)