On Nov 3, 2009, at 12:35 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: > I've checked draft (!) PEP 3003, "Python Language Moratorium", into > SVN. As authors I've listed Jesse, Brett and myself. > > On python-ideas the moratorium idea got fairly positive responses > (more positive than I'd expected, in fact) but I'm bracing myself for > fierce discussion here on python-dev. It's important to me that if if > this is accepted it is a "rough consensus" decision (working code we > already have plenty of :-), not something enforced by a vocal minority > or an influential individual such as myself. If there's too much > opposition I'll withdraw the PEP so as not to waste everybody's time > with a fruitless discussion. > > The PEP tries to spell out some gray areas but I'm sure there will be > others; that's life. Do note that the PEP proposes to be *retroactive* > back to the 3.1 release, i.e. the "frozen" version of the language is > the state in which it was released as 3.1. I think this is a great idea. I'd love to see the energy normally put into evolving the language into making the stdlib really kick ass. -Barry -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: PGP.sig Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 832 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20091103/15780ad9/attachment.pgp>
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