Hello everyone, I had a request during my talk at EuroPython this year to help the aspiring Cython users out there convince their managers to accept Cython in their tech stack.
Cython has been around for more than a decade now, has been in heavy production use pretty much all of that time, has proven to have everything it needs as a programming language, and still resorts to a 0.x versioning scheme. I think it's time to leave the 0.x behind us and make it clear that it's a reliable programming language that won't easily change in a major code breaking way anymore. Which version should we choose next? Some projects have adopted year based release schemes, e.g. pip recently jumped from 10.x to 18.0. Browsers follow the marketing path and boldly increase their version number by a whole 1 on every feature release. I'd be happy to follow them and release a Cython 29.0 next, mostly to make it clear that we're not really changing anything from the previous release cycles, but really just move the versioning scheme one place to the left to get rid of the uninformative "0." prefix. What do you think? Stefan _______________________________________________ cython-devel mailing list cython-devel@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/cython-devel
