[csw-maintainers] python question

[Ben Walton]

Excerpts from Mike Watters's message of Thu Feb 05 11:44:32 -0500 2009:
>   1) make "python" latest 2.x release
>      (currently 2.6.1)
>   2) remove the pythonXX branch
>      (after the 2.6.1 version leaves testing)
>   3) create python3k branch

I'm not a python guy, but doesn't 2.6.x finally put the brakes on some
old coding style in preparation for the now released 3k?  I suspect
that it may be nice to keep a 2.5 version around for a bit until all
the python apps are 2.6 safe.  [I maintain asciidoc which tosses
warnings about this in 2.5...There was a fix introduced and then
rolled back since it wasn't compatible with older versions.]

It would be good to keep the 'python' name for the current, but having
an optionally available python25 and then python3k would be good.  At
what point does python3k become python and the old python become
python26 though?

Just some random thoughts.

-Ben
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