[Python-Dev] What should the focus for 2.6 be?

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Aug 20, 2006, at 11:24 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote:

> I wonder if it would make sense to focus in 2.6 on making porting of
> 2.6 code to 3.0 easier, rather than trying to introduce new features
> in 2.6. We've done releases without new language features before;
> notable 2.3 didn't add anything new (except making a few __future__
> imports redundant) and concentrated on bugfixes, performance, and
> library additions.

+1, and there are other benefits to this approach too.

First, the pace of change appears to slow, which addresses another  
source of complaints.  Because instead of a slew of new features  
every 18 months, we really see that slew only every three years, with  
a stabilizing and bug fixing release in between.  Another benefit is  
that with a de-emphasis on new features, we can spend more time  
improving the library and documentation.

- -Barry

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