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

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Mon, 08 Apr 2002 10:33:57 -0400

Guido> If we're going for an even/odd scheme, I wouldn't want to swap Guido> the Linux convention, so 2.2 would have to be stable, and 2.3 Guido> experimental. [Skip] Yeah, I'd tend to agree. For one thing, all the Linux distributions are used to the Linux even-odd convention. Not confusing them would probably be a good thing. (Hey, how about we skip 2.3 altogether and get in complete version sync with Linux? Maybe we could even convince Linus to do our releases for us. :-)

I think Linus has once said that Python alone was not a reason to reject a certain piece of software; that's a far cry from helping us out. :-)

Guido> Maybe I should PEP it first? :-)

You've got a smiley there,

Because any PEP I write appears to mostly raise controversy once brought up on c.l.py.

but some things will obviously have to change about the way releases are managed, so a PEP might not be a bad idea.

An informational PEP explaining the procedure, yes. A PEP asking the community what they want, heck no. The ones that are still believing that python-dev is a closed list should definitely continue to believe so. The fake toll booth is doing its work admirably. :-)

Has Jack chimed in on this thread from the Mac quarter? Tim, can Windows installers be created by other people?

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)