[Python-Dev] Re: Stability and change (original) (raw)

Skip Montanaro skip@pobox.com
Mon, 8 Apr 2002 09:11:37 -0500 

Guido> *If* we're going for an even/odd scheme, I wouldn't want to swap
Guido> the Linux convention, so 2.2 would have to be stable, and 2.3
Guido> experimental.

Yeah, I'd tend to agree. For one thing, all the Linux distributions are used to the Linux even-odd convention. Not confusing them would probably be a good thing. (Hey, how about we skip 2.3 altogether and get in complete version sync with Linux? Maybe we could even convince Linus to do our releases for us. :-)

Guido> Maybe I should PEP it first? :-)

You've got a smiley there, but some things will obviously have to change about the way releases are managed, so a PEP might not be a bad idea. Has Jack chimed in on this thread from the Mac quarter? Tim, can Windows installers be created by other people?

Skip