Does python have built command for package skeleton creation?

Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info
Fri Sep 21 11:54:41 EDT 2012


On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 14:50:36 +0100, Mark Lawrence wrote:

> On 21/09/2012 14:13, xliiv wrote:

>> Why is this '2 years release cycle'?
>>
>>
> Because there aren't enough volunteers to get it done any faster?

Because if it were any faster, it would piss off a lot of people.

Python's release cycle is actually closer to 18 months for minor releases
(3.2 -> 3.3, for example), and 10 years for major releases (2.x -> 3.x). 
But consider, C and C++ don't have minor releases *at all*. The last 
versions of those two languages are C99 and C+98 -- that's FOURTEEN YEARS 
since the last version of C++. And Java hasn't had a major feature update 
since 2006.

For a programming language with a lot of corporate use, Python already 
seems like it changes at the drop of a hat.


-- 
Steven



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