[Python-Dev] Python 2.7 patch levels turning two digit

[Barry Warsaw]

On Jun 23, 2014, at 05:15 PM, Donald Stufft wrote:

>Normally when I see someone suggest that switching compilers
>in 2.7.x is likely to be less work than releasing a 2.8 It normally
>appears to me they haven’t looked at the impact on the packaging
>tooling.

Just to be clear, releasing a Python 2.8 has enormous impact outside of just
the amount of work to do it.  It's an exceedingly bad idea.

-Barry
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