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

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Mon Jun 23 23:22:27 CEST 2014

On Jun 23, 2014, at 05:15 PM, Donald Stufft wrote:

Normally when I see someone suggest that switching compilers in 2.7.x is likely to be less work than releasing a 2.8 It normally appears to me they haven’t looked at the impact on the packaging tooling.

Just to be clear, releasing a Python 2.8 has enormous impact outside of just the amount of work to do it. It's an exceedingly bad idea.

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