[Python-Dev] [RELEASED] Python 2.7 alpha 2 (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Wed Jan 13 00:30:27 CET 2010

I'm not talking about Twisted moving to 3.x (FWIW, I think the only movement there so far is some patches for some -3 warnings). The situation I'm describing is a project X that:

(a) has 2.x-only dependencies, and (b) would like to be as close as possible to 3.x (because they like the new features and/or want to be as ready as possible to jump when (a) is fixed).

This assumes that jumping to 3.x is easier if you are closer to it. Please trust me that this is not the case.

No, it won't. It might be if people move to 2.8 and drop 2.5, but they likely won't. But this is my point. I think they would as an intermediate step to jumping to 3.x (which also requires dropping 2.5, after all!), if for some reason they cannot yet jump to 3.x, such as a 2.x-only dependency.

No, and no. No: it's not an intermediate step, and no, supporting 3.x does not require dropping 2.5.

Regards, Martin

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