Re: Move to python 2.2 as default release?
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.
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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> Subject: Re: Move to python 2.2 as default release?
> From: Laura Creighton <lac@strakt.com>
> To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, lawrencc@debian.org
> Cc: guido@python.org, lac@strakt.com
> Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 15:25:01 +0200
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> >>On Aug 06, Torsten Landschoff wrote:
> >>As the new upstream of python-gnome (for GNOME 2) needs python 2.2 for
> >>building I am wondering when python 2.2 will get the default version
> >>for Debian. Any insights?
> >
> >I believe a consensus was reached on debian-python that we would move
> >to Python 2.3 as the next default Python, skipping 2.2 entirely.
> >
> >
> >My recommendation would be to separately maintain a python
> >2.2-compatible python-gnome and a <2.1 compatible version, at least
> >until the 2.3 release.
> >
> >
> >Chris
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> >Chris Lawrence <cnlawren@olemiss.edu> - http://www.lordsutch.com/chris/
> >
> >Instructor and Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science, Univ. of Mississippi
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>
> The new Python Business Forum (www.python-in-business.com) is
> collaborating with the Python developers to produce Python-in-a-Tie,
> a business-targetted release of Python. This is a 'Sumo-Release',
> which will include other useful Python libraries and programs which
> are not part of the standard Python releases. What we want is a release we
> tell our cyustomers to run which will give them 18 months or so
> during which there is no need for them, as users, not developers, to
> upgrade a to a newer version of Python. Then we will target a next
> release, and to be the next Python-in-a-Tie. I am the Chairman of
> the Python-in-a-Tie SIG, and the Python-in-a-Tie release is going
> to be based on 2.2, not 2.1 or 2.3. Thus 2.2 is the release which
> we are telling Python developers is the release which they should
> write for. Therefore I think that skipping the 2.2 release in
> favour of the 2.3 would be a mistake.
>
> Please cc any discussion and replies to me since I do not read
> debian-devel. Thanks very much,
>
> Laura Creighton
>
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