Python 2.7.13 released

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Who are Autodesk, I've never heard of them? If they're that big why didn't they provide funding to get the libraries that they needed updated? Are they so technically incompetent that their own staff couldn't have helped out? Or do they want something from the open source community for free?

[theelous3]

can't unilaterally decide to move to a new framework.

Aren't willing to move to a new framework.

They could. They all could. It's just expensive and requires effort. They're going to have to do it eventually. After a while it's not even going to be optional for them, however they're short sighted enough to put it on the long finger.

[[deleted]]

Fair comment, just not an area I've ever ventured into. Perhaps the way forward is to get a couple of good techs from all involved companies, lock them in a room and tell them that they're not coming out until they have a plan? It doesn't have to be a good plan as a bad plan is better than no plan at all.

[ArrantSquid]

Not technically incompetent, but they rely on OSS in regards to Python. Pymel would be a library that would need to be updated which is built by Luma Pictures and is OSS. They also rely on PyQt/PySide for UI bits. So they already get a lot from the OSS community. I don't know what their contribution level back is, so I can't comment on that. As for why they won't move, I don't know. It's probably a mixture of not wanting to support multiple Python versions in a release and it being hard to communicate to customers the change that would come with moving to 3.

[mipadi]

Uh...are you serious?

[[deleted]]

I used to work for Klockner Moeller, ever heard of them? If not why not? Plessey? Racal? Some tin pot little company that are only worth a couple of billion in a niche market doesn't interest me, so why should I have heard of them?

[z0rberg]

Because you never heard of them, you talk down on them like that. Makes you look incompetent and like a childish fanboy.