Re: Move to python 2.2 as default release?

[Jim Penny <jpenny@universal-fasteners.com>]

On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 11:02:18AM -0400, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Thanks for the post, Laura.  I agree -- Python 2.3 won't be ready for
> a long time, and I recommend to the Debian folks that they
> standardize on Python 2.2.  For now, that will be Python 2.2.1; a
> maintenance release, 2.2.2 will be issued some time later this year.
> 

But Zope 2.5, one the more popular applications,  requires 2.1.3.  
Can we be more aggressive in changing default versions than Zope?

Jim Penny

> I don't expect 2.3 to reach maturity until mid 2003.
> 
> --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
> 
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