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[Python-Dev] death to 2.7; long live 2.7

Benjamin Peterson benjamin at python.org
Thu Apr 10 04:02:01 CEST 2014 
On Wed, Apr 9, 2014, at 18:46, Senthil Kumaran wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 9:22 PM, Benjamin Peterson
> <benjamin at python.org>wrote:
> 
> > Instead dealing 2.7 will just be completely optional for core
> > developers. (The much anticipated vendor support arrives at this point.)
> >
> 
> Could you clarify your thoughts a bit on the "completely optional" part.
> What if vendors take a really long time to come to support the latest
> minor
> release? AFAIK, the discussion centered around keep it "alive", for some
> definition of alive. We did not define what do we mean by 'alive'.

Alive means I will keep making 2.7 releases while there are still
interesting changes to release.

> 
> Bringing back all the security related enhancement features seem ok.
> Guido's last email talks about all the other compatibility goodies /tools
> targeting 2.7 that may or may not go with 2.7 code base itself.

I consider the security enhancement/feature question to be in the domain
of PEP 466. If security stuff lands in the 2.7 branch, it will get
released eventually is all I'm saying.
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