[Python-Dev] PEPS, version control, release intervals

[Paul Barrett]

Tim Peters writes:
 > 
 > About people not moving to 2.0, the single specific reason I hear most often
 > hinges on presumed lack of GPL compatibility.  But then people worried about
 > that *have* a specific reason stopping them.  For everyone else, I know
 > sysadmins who still refuse to move up from Perl 4.
 > 
 > BTW, we recorded thousands of downloads of 2.0 betas at BeOpen.com, and
 > indeed more than 10,000 of the Windows installer alone.  Then their download
 > stats broke.  SF's have been broken for a long time.  So while we have no
 > idea how many people are downloading now, the idea that people stayed away
 > from 2.0 in droves is wrong.  And 2.0-specific examples are common on c.l.py
 > now from lots of people too.

I agree.  I think people are moving to 2.0, but not at the rate of
keeping-up with the current release cycle.  By the time 2/3 of them
have installed 2.0, 2.1 will be released.  So what's the point of
installing 2.0, when a few weeks later, you have to install 2.1?  The
situation at our institution is a good indicator of this: 2.0 becomes
the default this week.

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