[Python-Dev] Python 4: don't remove anything, don't break backward compatibility (original) (raw)

Oleg Broytman phd at phdru.name
Mon Mar 10 18:44:56 CET 2014

Hi!

On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 04:49:44PM +0000, Brett Cannon <bcannon at gmail.com> wrote:

I think it got lost in email threading, but Barry pointed out that Guido famously hates double digit version numbers (as do I, probably partially because he does after all these years =).

There is one minor annoyance with double digits:

$ ls -l total 16 drwx------ 2 phd phd 4096 Mar 10 21:42 3.1 drwx------ 2 phd phd 4096 Mar 10 21:42 3.10 drwx------ 2 phd phd 4096 Mar 10 21:42 3.2 ... ... drwx------ 2 phd phd 4096 Mar 10 21:42 4.0

Other than that I don't see any problem, and don't see any need to jump from 3.9 to 4.0.

Oleg.

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