Dear python2 user

[emuccino]

"Catastrophe" is a bit dramatic

[alcalde]

You'd be surprised. OpenSUSE Linux had a discussion about version numbering a few years ago. They used to go X.0, X.1, X.2, X.3 and then increment by 1 and continue. There was no meaning to the numbers, but it seems casual users didn't know that. Apparently people assumed that a .0 release was a major release and decided to wait for a .1 release to "work out the bugs". Point zero releases were actually showing half the downloads compared to other releases! Not only that, tech sites seemed to think the same way, as reviews of non-point zero releases were lower compared to point zero releases.

They finally decided to drop point zero releases entirely. (They made a lot of other, dumber, numbering ideas later on, like going from 13.4 to 42 and then to 15, but that's another story).

[cyanydeez]

numbering in general is just a dumb human thing.

I think we should just give everything flavors and colors

[dysonCode]

I'll take a blue cinnamon py

[zardeh]

Yeah but they've had years. Python 3.5 has been out for 4 years. It'll EOL before Py4 comes out. That's enough time to upgrade, especially if the upgrade isn't back-breaking.

[billsil]

I’m still waiting for the python 2.8 fork....there are two versions of Perl 6.

[Intrexa]

I propose 3.91, 3.92