[Python-Dev] Re: No new features

[Aahz]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2005, Donovan Baarda wrote:
>
> major releases, ie 2.x -> 3.0, are for things that can break existing code.
> They change the API so that things that run on 2.x may not work with 3.x.
> 
> minor releases, ie 2.2.x ->2.3.0, are for things that cannot break existing
> code. They can extend the API such that code for 2.3.x may not work on
> 2.2.x, but code that runs on 2.2.x must work on 2.3.x.
> 
> micro releases, ie 2.2.1 ->2.2.2, are for bug fixes only. There can be no
> changes to the API, so that all code that runs on 2.2.2 should work with
> 2.2.1, barring the bugs fixed.
> 
> The example you cited of adding bool was an extension to the API, and hence
> should have been a minor release, not a micro release.
> 
> I just read the PEP-6, and it doesn't seem to use this terminology, or make
> this distinction... does something else do this anywhere? I thought this
> approach was common knowledge...

Functionally speaking, Python has only major releases and micro
releases.  We don't have the resources to support minor releases.
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