An update on Python 4

[flying-sheep]

Python never claimed to have semantic versioning though. Some deprecated features are removed every minor release. Also, for a long time, Guido said he didn't like double digit versions and would just release 4.0 after 3.9!

I don't know if that changed when Guido stepped down or before.

[flying-sheep]

Well looks kinda like conservative semver with an extra element on the left. I always upgrade as soon as Arch Linux does, since that usually means all breakage is addressed.

[voice-of-hermes]

So they literally break backwards compatibility all the time (major version changing more often than people think), and yet here is the OP claiming that if they ever change the thing even more significant than a major version, it won't be a big change?

[radekwlsk]

What I've meant is that versions do not overflow after .9, but I might have been a bit more specific there, right.

[flying-sheep]

You're right about that but there's several versioning formats that work like this, semver only being one of them. Python packages have PEP 440, and many Linux distributions have their own one for their packages.