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<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Apr 6, 2013, at 2:02 PM, Benjamin Peterson <<a href="mailto:benjamin@python.org">benjamin@python.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; ">we need to talk about how many more 2.7 releases there are</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; ">going to be. At the release of 2.7.0, I thought we promised 5 years of</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; ">bugfix maintenance, but my memory may be fuddled.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></blockquote></div><br><div>I don't we need to make any "promises" beyond 5 years,</div><div>but I also think it is likely the 2.7 will end-up being a </div><div>long-term maintenance version of Python.</div><div><br></div><div>At this year's Pycon keynote, I surveyed the crowd (approx 2500 people)</div><div>and all almost everyone indicated that they had tried out Python 3.x</div><div>and almost no one was using it in production or writing code for it.</div><div>That indicates that Python 2.7 will continue to be important for a good</div><div>while. </div><div><br></div><div>In addition, the other implementations of Python (Jython, PyPy, GAE, </div><div>and IronPython) are all at or nearly at Python 2.7. So, continued</div><div>support will be needed for their users as well.</div><div><br></div><div>After 2.7.4, I expect that the pace of real bug fixes will slow down,</div><div>but that we'll continue to improve docs, add docstrings, update IDLE, etc.</div><div><br></div><div>IMO, it is premature to utter the phrase "the end of 2.7".</div><div>Better to say, "2.7 is stable and is expected to only have minor updates".</div><div><br></div><div>Future point releases probably ought to occur "on their own schedule"</div><div>whenever there are a sufficient number of changes to warrant a release,</div><div>or an important security fix, or whenever the release managers have time.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Raymond</div><div><br></div><div>------</div><div><br></div><div><div>PYTHON 2.7 I'm not dead!</div><div>CART DRIVER 'Ere. He says he's not dead.</div><div>LARGE MAN Yes he is.</div><div>PYTHON 2.7 I'm not!</div><div>CART DRIVER He isn't.</div><div>LARGE MAN He will be soon. He's very ill.</div><div>PYTHON 2.7 I'm getting better!</div><div>LARGE MAN You're not. You'll be stone</div><div> dead in a few minutes.</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>
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