On 2014-03-10 17:08, R. David Murray wrote:
On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 16:06:22 -0000, Brett Cannon <bcan...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon Mar 10 2014 at 11:50:54 AM, Victor Stinner <victor.stin...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> 2014-03-10 16:25 GMT+01:00 Stefan Richthofer <stefan.richtho...@gmx.de>:
> > I don't see the point in this discussion.
> > As far as I know, the major version is INTENDED to
> > indicate backward-incompatible changes.
>
> This is not a strict rule. I would like to follow Linux 3 which didn't
> break the API between Linux 2 and Linux 3.
>
I disagree. I don't think 3->4 will be as drastic as it was for 2->3, but I
view Python 4 as a chance to drop all deprecated APIs that we left in for
convenience in porting from Python 2 (e.g. the imp module). We can't put a
removal date as we can't really declare Python 2 dead for the whole
community. But when Python 4 does come out next decade I would like to say
that we have moved entirely beyond Python 2 as a team and thus don't turn
into Java and support deprecated code forever.
We had this discussion a bit ago, and my sense was that we tentatively
decided that we were just going to deprecate and remove things as
appropriate, irregardless of version number. I used "4.0" in my
message about 'U' as a shorthand for "some time after python2
is no longer an issue". Sorry for the confusion. (That said, I
do see some merit to doing some extra cleaning at the 4.0
boundary, just for mental convenience.)
What does "irregardless" mean?
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