Re: The potential for a Python 2.8.

From	Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Subject	Re: The potential for a Python 2.8.
Date	2014-01-23 20:11 -0500
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On 1/23/2014 8:00 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:

> The noise asking for a 2.8 isn't going to die down any time soon.

I suspect you meant "isn't going to die completely"

> It'll flare up again every time there's a significant event in the
> 2.7's end of life: when it goes into source-only support, when its
> python.org support ends entirely, when Debian's next version won't
> ship it, when Red Hat's ditto ditto, when it's no longer possible to
> get it from Ubuntu's repositories, etc, etc, etc. And no amount of
> "There will be no 2.8 unless you make it yourself!" will change that.
>
> That's my prediction.

Sadly, mine too. Maybe the flareup peaks will gradually become lower. Or 
maybe they will not be discussed so much on python-list.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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