Re: [Cython] Cython 0.29 – or 29.0 ?

2018-08-15 Thread Robert Bradshaw
If we're going to ditch the 0.x, I'd go for 1.0 as well. I'm a huge fan of semantic versioning. The primary reasons we kept the 0.x scheme were that * We wanted full compatibility with CPython (we're nearly there, or at least it's safe to say the differences are on par with those between differen

Re: [Cython] Cython 0.29 – or 29.0 ?

2018-08-15 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
I vote for 1.0 Version 29.0 sounds too much like marketing. ___ cython-devel mailing list cython-devel@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/cython-devel

Re: [Cython] Cython 0.29 – or 29.0 ?

2018-08-15 Thread Julian Rüth
Hello Stefan, * Stefan Behnel [2018-08-15 16:49:58 +0200]: > 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. it's true that the 0. prefix gives the impression that cython i

[Cython] Cython 0.29 – or 29.0 ?

2018-08-15 Thread Stefan Behnel
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 pr