Concerning the version number, I thought the intention of
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On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
Concerning the version number, I thought the intention of

PEP 404 was simply to say that the PSF would not be releasing

anything called Python 2.8, not to forbid anyone *else*

from doing so.



Or am I wrong about that?


Well, it's essentially BSD open source. We can't stop anyone from doing anything when it comes to code.


If I'm right, there's nothing stopping Christian from
releasing Stackless Python 2.8 with whatever improvements
he wants.

You're right, there is nothing legally stopping him.

If it includes other improvements beyond the

change of compiler, it may even deserve the higher

version number.


I disagree with that. Python-dev will not be releasing Python 2.8, ever (that's what PEP 404 states). If I decided to start making decisions of what constituted Python 2.8 outside of python-dev then it really isn't a new feature release and thus does not deserve the number as it isn't a release from the collective decision-making of the core developers of Python. That's why so many people lept up initially when Christian said "Stackless Python 2.8"; it isn't a true successor and no one wants to confuse users into thinking that.