[Python-Dev] peps: describe the current policy (original) (raw)
Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net
Mon Oct 1 19:40:40 CEST 2012
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On 10/01/2012 07:38 PM, benjamin.peterson wrote:
http://hg.python.org/peps/rev/641add9f9542 changeset: 4530:641add9f9542 user: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> date: Mon Oct 01 13:38:31 2012 -0400 summary: describe the current policy
files: pep-0373.txt | 8 ++++++++ 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/pep-0373.txt b/pep-0373.txt --- a/pep-0373.txt +++ b/pep-0373.txt @@ -49,6 +49,14 @@ Maintenance releases ==================== +Being the last of the 2.x series, 2.7 will have an extended period of +maintenance. The current plan is to support it for at least 5 years +from the initial 2.7 release. This means there will be bugfix releases +until 2015. Depending on Python 3 adoption, this may be modified up or +down.
TBH, I would guarantee it for at least 5 years: the current wording is not an improvement over the current situation as it basically does not tell anything definite.
Georg
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