[Zope3-dev] Re: What does python 3000 mean for zope?

[Martijn Faassen]

Paul Winkler wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 12:49:23AM -0400, Paul Winkler wrote:
>> On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 05:39:45PM +0100, Martin Aspeli wrote:
>>> Has there been a strong statement that there won't be a Python 2.7 and 
>>> beyond? Will Python 2.x be actively killed off?
>> Quite the opposite, Guido proposed last year to do 2.7, 2.8, and 2.9.
>> After that it's not clear to me.
> 
> FYI, I asked about this on comp.lang.python.
> New thread here:
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/abc75862abe56d6a/3ecd2db9a2cb6b26?hl=en#3ecd2db9a2cb6b26
> 

I did receive the strong impression from Guido during his keynote at 
EuroPython in 2007 that he hopes it won't go beyond 2.7 (which is 
"maybe" necessary). The FAQ talks about more 2.x.y bugfix releases as well.

When I told Guido about Zope's continuing separation in 2.x and 3.x 
communities he seemed to be a bit surprised and said he'd like to avoid 
that with Python. So I know he wants to avoid two parallel communities 
of Python 2.x and Python 3.x developers. He mentioned he wants to 
provide carrots for people to move. Such "carrot" marketing will be 
opposed to the interests of the larger frameworks which can't port 
quickly, as it'll likely be at least implying that 2.x is old stuff you 
shouldn't be using.

Regards,

Martijn