[Python-Dev] PEP 0404 and VS 2010 (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Thu Nov 21 13:59:41 CET 2013

On Thu, 21 Nov 2013 12:36:48 +0000 Kristján Valur Jónsson <kristjan at ccpgames.com> wrote:

Yes, we have stackless 3.3 But there is desire to have a 2.X version, with added fixes from 3.x, e.g. certain improvements in the standard library etc. It's the old argument: moving to 3.x is not an option for some users, but there are known improvements that can be applied to current 2.7. Why not both have our cake and eat it? cPython had probably two driving concerns for not making a 2.8: 1) Focussing development on one branch 2) encouraging (forcing) users to take the leap to 3 come hell or high water.

For Stackless, neither argument applies because 2.8 work would be done by us and stackless has no particular allegiance towards either version.

Stackless can release their own Stackless 2.8 if they want, but I don't get why CPython would have a 2.8 too.

Regards

Antoine.

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