Re: Why Python 4.0 won't be like Python 3.0

Date	2014-08-18 10:14 -0700
From	Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us>
Subject	Re: Why Python 4.0 won't be like Python 3.0
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On 08/18/2014 07:51 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
> To all of us out here in user-land a change in the first value in the
> version tuple means breakage and incompatibilities. And when the
> second value is "0", you avoid it until some other sucker has found
> the bugs and a few more minor releases have come out.

Even our own 3.0 was like that.


> I don't think one (or several) blog posts is going to change the
> perceptions and expectations that have been coditioned into us by
> decades of experience with x.0 versions of countless software
> packages. If it's just another in a a series of incremental "bug fix
> and minor enhancements without breaking backwards incompatibility"
> releases, you simply do not call it vers x.0.

Yup.

--
~Ethan~

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Why Python 4.0 won't be like Python 3.0 Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-08-17 13:37 +0100
  Re: Why Python 4.0 won't be like Python 3.0 Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-08-18 14:51 +0000
    Re: Why Python 4.0 won't be like Python 3.0 Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-08-19 01:03 +1000
    Re: Why Python 4.0 won't be like Python 3.0 "ElChino" <elchino@cnn.cn> - 2014-08-18 19:00 +0200
      Re: Why Python 4.0 won't be like Python 3.0 Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-08-18 10:15 -0700
      Re: Why Python 4.0 won't be like Python 3.0 Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-08-19 09:46 +1000
    Re: Why Python 4.0 won't be like Python 3.0 Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-08-18 10:14 -0700
      Re: Why Python 4.0 won't be like Python 3.0 Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-08-18 21:09 +0000
        Re: Why Python 4.0 won't be like Python 3.0 Emile van Sebille <emile@fenx.com> - 2014-08-18 14:45 -0700
        Re: Why Python 4.0 won't be like Python 3.0 Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-08-19 10:25 +1000
          Re: Why Python 4.0 won't be like Python 3.0 Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-08-19 14:27 +0000
            Re: Why Python 4.0 won't be like Python 3.0 Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2014-08-19 09:37 -0500
              Re: Why Python 4.0 won't be like Python 3.0 Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-08-19 14:51 +0000
              Re: Why Python 4.0 won't be like Python 3.0 Johann Hibschman <jhibschman@gmail.com> - 2014-08-19 10:56 -0400
            Re: Why Python 4.0 won't be like Python 3.0 Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-08-20 03:44 +1000
    Re: Why Python 4.0 won't be like Python 3.0 Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-08-19 08:27 +1000
      Re: Why Python 4.0 won't be like Python 3.0 Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-08-19 11:00 +1000
    Re: Why Python 4.0 won't be like Python 3.0 Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-08-19 10:05 +1000
      Re: Why Python 4.0 won't be like Python 3.0 Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-08-19 10:30 +1000
    Re: Why Python 4.0 won't be like Python 3.0 Tim Delaney <timothy.c.delaney@gmail.com> - 2014-08-19 10:47 +1000
  Re: Why Python 4.0 won't be like Python 3.0 wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2014-08-19 12:04 -0700

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