[Python-Dev] Python 2.7 patch levels turning two digit (original) (raw)

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Mon Jun 23 22:31:03 CEST 2014

On Jun 23, 2014, at 04:20 PM, Donald Stufft wrote:

At the risk of getting Guido to post his slide again, I still think the solution to the old compiler is to just roll a 2.8 with minimal changes.

No. It's not going to happen, for all the reasons discussed previously. Python 2.8 is not a solution to anything.

If a new, incompatible compiler suite is required, why can't there just be multiple Windows downloads on https://www.python.org/download/releases/2.7.7/ ? Well, on reason is that you'd have to convince MvL or someone else to take over the work that would require, but that's gotta be much lighter weight than releasing a Python 2.8.

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