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Mon Mar 10 16:50:12 CET 2014 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2014-March/133028.html

2014-03-10 16:25 GMT+01:00 Stefan Richthofer <Stefan.Richthofer at 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.

> Even then, there is no need for 4.0; you can just have 3.10, 3.11 etc.

The major version is sometimes seen as the age of a project. I propose
to bump Python to version 4 because people understand that Python 4 is
much better than Python 3 :-) Firefox changes its major version every
4 months or something like that. I suggest to wait less than 8 years
for Python 4.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_versioning#Political_and_cultural_significance_of_version_numbers

Or maybe we should jump directly to Python 5 for asian users and to
follow PHP version!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraphobia

Victor

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