On Monday 08 April 2002 21:26, Guido van Rossum wrote: ... > > True, and yet such decision makers DO want to perceive that the > > specific software they use IS actively supported. It's a reasonable > > desire indeed, as I've tried to explain quite a few times. > > Yet it is close to Logajan's position. I dispute that, even though he himself appears to be judging from one post he made to c.l.p -- which I answered trying to dispell his false hopes in the matter. He wants to ensure that software that runs on (e.g.) 2.(N+1) must also have run on 2.N : this is unreasonable, and I've never heard anybody else ask for that. He also seems to want this to hold across major release number changes, 1.* to 2.* -- and again that does not seem to be a widespread priority. > > If they perceive that choosing "Python in general" means they have > > to choose between an "old, not actively supported any more" version > > of the language, and one that breaks previously working code every > > six months, then that will weigh on their mind as a big minus for > > Python. > > So it's purely a matter of spin. Because new Python releases every 6 > months do *not* mean that code breaks every 6 months. Yet some people > continue to believe this. I may be wrong, but I think that the fact that doctests DO break with every release has something to do with this perception. doctest is SO nice, easy and natural to use (within a single release) that it's hard to accept it as "unusable between minor releases", even though I have to reluctantly accept that decision. > > If they perceived they could choose a "stable but actively > > supported" version (the existence of an experimental one too would > > not worry them, I believe -- many popular languages sprout > > experimental ones based on them too) then that worry would be out of > > the way, and I'd have a better chance to get them to LOOK at the > > huge productivity improvements Python has in wait for them... > > Maybe all we need to do is make the micro releases a bit more > visible... I may be wrong, but I think the concept of dual, stable and experimental, tracks, already familiar and accepted from other pieces of software, would facilitate prospective user's perception of "stable but actively supported software". Alex
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