[RELEASED] 2.7 beta 1

[Chris Rebert]

On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Mensanator <mensanator at aol.com> wrote:
> On Apr 10, 5:45 pm, Michael Ströder <mich... at stroeder.com> wrote:
>> average wrote:
>> >> On behalf of the Python development team, I'm merry to announce the first beta
>> >> release of Python 2.7.
>>
>> >> Python 2.7 is scheduled (by Guido and Python-dev) to be the last major version
>> >> in the 2.x series.  Though more major releases have not been absolutely ruled
>> >> out, it's likely that the 2.7 release will an extended period of maintenance for
>> >> the 2.x series.
>>
>> > May I propose that the developers consider keeping this release *beta*
>> > until after the present Python moratorium?  That is, don't let it be
>> > marked as *official* until after, say, Python 3.3.
>>
>> > There are so many features taken from 3.0 that I fear that it will
>> > postpone its adoption interminably
>>
>> Whether 3.x is adopted by developers is IMO not influenced by the 2.7 release
>> schedule. At least the effect is highly speculative. So please simply release
>> 2.7 when it's ready.
>
> 3.x won't be adopted by developers until it's fixed. As of now, it's
> seriously broken and unsuitable for production.

In what ways do you consider it broken?

Cheers,
Chris