1.6 features

[Tim Peters]

[James Logajan]
> Dumb question: So is the version number going to be 1.6 or 2.0?
> Just curious.

If things go as planned, version 1.6 will be the last release of Python from
CNRI.  This will consist of the work done on Python before Guido et alia
left CNRI's employ; plus work on features at least partially funded by
monies channeled thru CNRI (meaning specifically Marc-Andre Lemburg's
Unicode support, and Fredrik Lundh's work on the new Unicode-aware regular
expression engine); plus whatever other integration work is needed to make
this a stable and reasonable release.

Not long after that, version 2.0 will be the first release of Python from
BeOpen PythonLabs.  This will build on the 1.6 release, and include the
amazing blizzard of work that was accomplished by 20+ developers after
moving the Python CVS tree to SourceForge.

can't-tell-the-versions-without-a-scorecard-ly y'rs  - tim