Python 3000

[Peter Schneider-Kamp]

Martijn Faassen wrote:
> 
> effbot at pythonware.com wrote:
> >  
> >    http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/
> 
> It'd be useful for the community if there were some document out there
> that described what the heck is going on, and why. Once all of this becomes
> a bit more clear for the parties involved, that is.

Actually there is a document for the what-is-going-on part.
/F mentioned it: PEP-0160 and PEP-0200 at the above address.

As to the why part - I am not sure I understand all of it.
(Or for that matter, any of it.) A short, but probably
incomplete and possibly wrong attempt at explaining things:

The main reason seems to be the change of license that CNRI
(where Python was developed before the team changed to BeOpen)
wants for the last CNRI release - the soon-to-be Python 1.6.
Matters seem to be largely settled now (after the last Python
Consortium meeting), but the long delay has brought the
possibility to rework certain things, include new features
and fix more bugs. So the 1.6 release by CNRI will be
followed by a 2.0 release from BeOpen shortly after.

As the python.org website is still hosted at CNRI
the Python developers currently do not have access.

For more (and more accurate) information on these matters
have a look at the python-dev archives at
  http://www.python.org/pipermail/python-dev
and at the Pythonlabs website:
  http://pythonlabs.com

Peter
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