[Python-ideas] Add from experimental import bla [was: Should we move to replace re with regex?] (original) (raw)
Eric V. Smith eric at trueblade.com
Wed Aug 31 23:36:21 CEST 2011
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On 8/31/2011 3:44 PM, Brett Cannon wrote:
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 10:51, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
On 31 August 2011 18:33, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
(*) Can we pick a terminology so we all agree that "3.3.3" is a "minor release", "3.3" is a "major release", and "3" an "earthshattering release"? Or other terms -- but something that is both agreed upon and clear enough without explanation. I'm tired of having to clarify minor and major every time I use them out of fear they'll be mistaken for "3" and "3.3". +1! "Minor" really sounds like a misnomer when applied to feature releases. How about 3.3.3 -> 3.3.4 is a "minor" release, 3.3 -> 3.4 is a "feature" release and 3 -> 4 is not something we generally talk about (or "compatibility-breaking" or something like that). I suspect that "minor" for changing the last digit is pretty comprehensible, it's using "major" for 3.3 that confuses people, so let's avoid that term... Let's avoid minor and major altogether. 2 -> 3: galactic release 3.2 -> 3.3: feature release (also 3 -> 3.1) 3.2.1 -> 3.2.2: bugfix release (also 3.2 -> 3.2.1) sys.versioninfo has already made the declaration of what each of the digits represent when it became a named tuple: major, minor, micro (http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/4dcbae65df3f/Python/sysmodule.c#l1273). And if you don't like the naming, then blame me; http://bugs.python.org/issue4285 was the bug that led to the names and they are what I have always used for all software. After that blame Eric Smith for committing the patch. =)
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