With 1.5 years per release, it'd be 10 years before we'd hit 3.10. >From a software engineering perspective, 10 years is indistinguishable from infinity, so I don't care what happens 10 years from now -- as long as you don't blame me. :-)
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: >> >> Generally speaking, deferring something to Python 4 means "never". > > > Does that mean your aversion to double digit version numbers (i.e. 3.10) is > gone or you expect to freeze Python in carbonite by then? > > -Brett > >> >> >> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 11:06 AM, R. David Murray <rdmur...@bitdance.com> >> wrote: >> > On Tue, 26 Feb 2013 18:14:26 +0000, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> >> > wrote: >> >> BTW, I assume that the intention is that both cffi and ctypes remain >> >> available indefinitely? Nobody's looking to deprecate ctypes? >> > >> > I would expect that ctypes would be deprecated eventually simply because >> > there aren't very many people interested in maintaining it, and probably >> > fewer if cffi is accepted. That said, I would not expect it to leave >> > the stdlib until either the bit rot was so bad it wouldn't be worth >> > shipping it, or (more likely) we reach Python4 and decide at that time >> > that it is time for it to go. >> > >> > Of course, this is just me talking, we only have a *very* vague "sense >> > of >> > the house" for what Python4 means at this point :) >> > >> > --David >> > _______________________________________________ >> > 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/guido%40python.org >> >> >> >> -- >> --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) >> _______________________________________________ >> 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/brett%40python.org > > -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ 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
