Why Python 4.0 won't be like Python 3.0

[Grant Edwards]

On 2014-08-18, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> On 08/18/2014 07:51 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>>
>> To all of us out here in user-land a change in the first value in the
>> version tuple means breakage and incompatibilities. And when the
>> second value is "0", you avoid it until some other sucker has found
>> the bugs and a few more minor releases have come out.
>
> Even our own 3.0 was like that.

So was 2.0, only it wasn't quite as distruptive as 3.0.

Don't get me started on the RedHat [5678].0 OS releases from back in
the day...

-- 
Grant