pyjamas 0.8alpha1 release

[lkcl]

On May 17, 5:38 pm, harrismh777 <harrismh... at charter.net> wrote:

> is recompiled everything still works... not so in Python. The fact that
> Python is free to morph gleely from PEP to PEP without responsibility or
> accountability with the user base is what may kill Python, unless the
> Python community gets a grip on this concept.

 he's got a good point, terry.  breaking backwards-compatibility was a
completely mad and incomprehensible decision.  i don't believe version
N of python is going to "die" due to changes - the sheer inertia of
hundreds of millions of lines of code and hundreds of thousands of
projects will make sure that's not going to happen, but it doesn't
help.

 it doesn't matter what the leading-edge developers behind python
_want_ to happen: it took 10+ years for python 1 and 2 to gain
traction, and i believe that's the sort of order of magnitude lag-time
to expect people world-wide to make decisions [to replace code].  you
only have to look at how long it's taking IE6 to die.... :)

 l.