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

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Mon, 08 Apr 2002 16:05:05 -0400

>> Make X.Y.0.N the experimental branch, >> settling down to X.Y.1 as the final stable release, >> following up with X.Y.Z as bugfix-only releases, >> and the next round of experimentals continuing from X.(Y+1).0.0. > >This is attractive, if we can make sure that everything settles >between 2.x.0 and 2.x.1. That leaves us only alpha and beta releases >of 2.x.1 to experiment. Could be a long string of betas...

The whole idea is that N can grow as large as you like it, before you declare the release stable, and rename it.

Unfortunately we have a formally defined encoding for versions that this would break. :-(

See patchlevel.h and sys.hexversion.

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