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

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Mon, 08 Apr 2002 20:55:15 -0400

[Jeremy]

Let me put my Python/Zope user hat on for a moment. I help maintain a Zope cluster that runs Python 2.1. We're not going to have another Zope release that uses Python 2.2 any time soon. When we do, it will probably be Zope 3 and that will be hard for me to upgrade to. So I expect the most recent Python I'll be using for the next year will be Python 2.1. I'd really be grateful for bug fixes and maintenance on this version as a result.

Fair enough.

Put in a slightly more abstract way, Python 2.2 is a major release with lots of new features. I expect a lot of users will stick with the last minor release that isn't a major release in disguise :-). So we'd serve them well be doing more maintenance on 2.1.

Agreed -- with the caveat that we have fixed resources.

Also, I haven't yet found any response to /F's suggestion that the std library always code to an earlier version of Python. What do you think of that?

I don't like it.

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