[Python-Dev] cffi in stdlib (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Tue Feb 26 20:24:54 CET 2013

With 1.5 years per release, it'd be 10 years before we'd hit 3.10.

From a software engineering perspective, 10 years is indistinguishable from infinity, so I don't care what happens 10 years from now -- as long as you don't blame me. :-)

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote: Generally speaking, deferring something to Python 4 means "never". Does that mean your aversion to double digit version numbers (i.e. 3.10) is gone or you expect to freeze Python in carbonite by then? -Brett

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 11:06 AM, R. David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com> wrote: > On Tue, 26 Feb 2013 18:14:26 +0000, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> > wrote: >> BTW, I assume that the intention is that both cffi and ctypes remain >> available indefinitely? Nobody's looking to deprecate ctypes? > > I would expect that ctypes would be deprecated eventually simply because > there aren't very many people interested in maintaining it, and probably > fewer if cffi is accepted. That said, I would not expect it to leave > the stdlib until either the bit rot was so bad it wouldn't be worth > shipping it, or (more likely) we reach Python4 and decide at that time > that it is time for it to go. > > Of course, this is just me talking, we only have a very vague "sense > of > the house" for what Python4 means at this point :) > > --David _> ________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/guido%40python.org

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