Guido van Rossum wrote: > I've checked draft (!) PEP 3003, "Python Language Moratorium", into > SVN. As authors I've listed Jesse, Brett and myself. > > On python-ideas the moratorium idea got fairly positive responses > (more positive than I'd expected, in fact) but I'm bracing myself for > fierce discussion here on python-dev. It's important to me that if if > this is accepted it is a "rough consensus" decision (working code we > already have plenty of :-), not something enforced by a vocal minority > or an influential individual such as myself. If there's too much > opposition I'll withdraw the PEP so as not to waste everybody's time > with a fruitless discussion. > > The PEP tries to spell out some gray areas but I'm sure there will be > others; that's life. Do note that the PEP proposes to be *retroactive* > back to the 3.1 release, i.e. the "frozen" version of the language is > the state in which it was released as 3.1.
+1. > This suspension of features is designed to allow non-CPython implementations > to "catch up" to the core implementation of the language, help ease adoption > of Python 3.x, and provide a more stable base for the community. I'd also add "to allow users to catch up"... ;-) One question: There are currently number of patch waiting on the tracker for additional Unicode feature support and it's also likely that we'll want to upgrade to a more recent Unicode version within the next few years. How would such indirect changes be seen under the moratorium ? -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Nov 03 2009) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
