[Python-Dev] 2.7 Release? 2.7 == last of the 2.x line?

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Tue Nov 3 12:43:30 CET 2009


David Cournapeau <cournape <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> To answer your question, the main issues are:
>  - are two branches are necessary or not ? If two branches are
> necessary, I think we simply do not have the resources at the moment.
>  - how to maintain a compatible C API across 2.x and 3.x
>  - is it practically possible to support and maintain numpy from 2.4
> to 3.x ? For example, I don't think the python 2.6 py3k warnings are
> very useful when you need to maintain compatibility with 2.4 and 2.5.

You should ask all those questions on the dedicated mailing-list:
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-porting

Regards

Antoine.




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