[Python-Dev] Someons's put a "Python 2.8" on GitHub (original) (raw)
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On 10 December 2016 at 13:49, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote: [...]
Regardless of the name, it'll be interesting to see whether there's demand for such a fork. Without a website, binaries to download, documentation, etc. it's still in the very early stages.
IMHO, whether or not there is demand for this release should be irrelevant. Caving in to Python 2.8 demand is trading off some short term gains (adding some Python 3 features to code bases locked into Python 2), in detriment of a big long-term risk, which is that the Python language permanently forks into two versions: Python 2 and Python 3.
Right now we have a solid expectation that eventually Python 2 is going to be legacy and most code bases will convert to Python 3. If we somehow endorse Python 2.8, many developers will be tempted to just stick with Python 2 forever. This would be very very bad for the future of the language as whole. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20161210/a15a651c/attachment-0001.html>
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