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

Chris Barker chris.barker at noaa.gov
Thu Nov 21 22:17:24 CET 2013

On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz>wrote:

Concerning the version number, I thought the intention of PEP 404 was simply to say that the PSF would not be releasing anything called Python 2.8, not to forbid anyone else from doing so.

Or am I wrong about that? If I'm right, there's nothing stopping Christian from releasing Stackless Python 2.8 with whatever improvements he wants. If it includes other improvements beyond the change of compiler, it may even deserve the higher version number.

If so, I still think it's a very bad idea to use a version number bump for a compiler change -- that's not at all what the version number means. That version number specifies a version of the code, and a version of the language (and library, not a particular ABI -- after all, how many different binary versions of python2.7 are out there now? Multiple platforms, multiple bit-depths, etc.

-Chris

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