Does python have built command for package skeleton creation?

Dave Angel d at davea.name
Fri Sep 21 13:26:32 EDT 2012


On 09/21/2012 11:54 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> 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.

"C++0x was the working name of a new ISO C++ standard, which was then
released in 2011 as C++11  ..."
   according to  http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/cxx0x.html

And it replaced C++03, released in 2003.



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

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DaveA




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