[Python-Dev] public visibility of python-dev decisions "before it's too late"

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 15 Mar, 2011, at 19:31, Greg Ewing wrote:

> Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> 
>> "There must be at least a one-year transition period between the
>> release of the transitional version of Python and the release
>> of the backwards incompatible version.
> 
> I still think this is going to result in rude shocks to
> people switching from 2 to 3 and jumping several releases
> into the 3.x line.

You need to update the source of extensions anyway when switching from 2.x to 3.x, this additional change is a minor one.

Ronald