Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!us.feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.mixmin.net!rt.uk.eu.org!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed2a.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.123 X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.77; '*S*': 0.02; 'guido': 0.05; 'subject:Python': 0.06; '*is*': 0.09; 'lawrence': 0.09; 'url:blog': 0.10; '2.7': 0.14; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'header:User- Agent:1': 0.23; 'precise': 0.24; 'cheers,': 0.24; 'header:In- Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'related': 0.29; 'announced': 0.31; 'fedora': 0.31; 'received:google.com': 0.35; 'there': 0.35; 'ubuntu': 0.36; 'url:org': 0.36; 'message-id:@gmail.com': 0.38; 'work?': 0.38; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'today': 0.64; 'subject:The': 0.64; 'header:Reply-To:1': 0.67; '20,': 0.68; 'line,': 0.68; 'reply-to:no real name:2**0': 0.71; 'london,': 0.72; 'reply-to:addr:gmail.com': 0.80; '2.8': 0.84; 'url:posts': 0.84; 'snow': 0.91 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:reply-to:organization:user-agent:mime-version :to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=hMCyZbvirjlGSviUDRVIW1WGC/PXptsgTH7NdAtzpTQ=; b=JAZS5dtEB+rmTS450LEuFTc3Z4DgmdytTvz9HecBXP1dKmBKE9EC2KvZ6vgm7vQH9S Eb6oS6e3FFuB90bgXv7eLQK+0WCUSXAKsqnw6DPdz8uOwiVPCgvuFn/CtJznFC3rBEp7 VZalmDcncd0N51OBcR6FjJED7yFoH8nRxtXBHfddwlqUQwPc1tjc/ZCKQIv5sgZs9RBb BmqjGZmQrKQJL1cp3GlWqLNQjgAvjuGMzginW6MXUXz3QMwwGAuJu1zMjpmdDODzSXf2 P3HUroDCqRWQnHLIVBHrCwWpsU4rrQpQD3wqsBAwQqPtz09ujqR0QDRBE2MG5OpJ5FMZ ZYRQ== X-Received: by 10.180.90.79 with SMTP id bu15mr9930691wib.38.1397503972730; Mon, 14 Apr 2014 12:32:52 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 20:32:50 +0100 From: Phil Dobbin Organization: Horse Latitudes Ltd User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Martijn Faassen: The Call of Python 2.8 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 21:45:08 +0200 X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list Reply-To: phildobbin@gmail.com List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 21 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1397504710 news.xs4all.nl 2872 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:55585 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:70232 On 14/04/2014 13:56, Mark Lawrence wrote: > http://blog.startifact.com/posts/the-call-of-python-28.html so in > response to the last line, who *IS* going to do all of the required work? > On a related note, Guido announced today that there will be no 2.8 & that the eol for 2.7 will be 2020. Cheers, Phil... -- currently (ab)using CentOS 6.5, Debian Squeeze & Wheezy, Fedora 19 & 20, OS X Snow Leopard, RHEL 7, Ubuntu Precise & Saucy GnuGPG Key : http://phildobbin.org/publickey.asc Based in London, UK