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

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Thu Nov 21 22:43:10 CET 2013

On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 4:09 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?

Well, it's essentially BSD open source. We can't stop anyone from doing anything when it comes to code.

If I'm right, there's nothing stopping Christian from releasing Stackless Python 2.8 with whatever improvements he wants.

You're right, there is nothing legally stopping him.

If it includes other improvements beyond the change of compiler, it may even deserve the higher version number.

I disagree with that. Python-dev will not be releasing Python 2.8, ever (that's what PEP 404 states). If I decided to start making decisions of what constituted Python 2.8 outside of python-dev then it really isn't a new feature release and thus does not deserve the number as it isn't a release from the collective decision-making of the core developers of Python. That's why so many people lept up initially when Christian said "Stackless Python 2.8"; it isn't a true successor and no one wants to confuse users into thinking that. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20131121/57fbe9ff/attachment.html>

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