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From: Terry Reedy on 28 Jan 2010 16:21 On 1/28/2010 2:51 PM, Steve Holden wrote: > Carl Banks wrote: >> Regardless of how magnaminous the people of PSF are, the unfortunate >> reality is that trademark owners are forced by the law to be >> "particularly petty". PSF's IP lawyer will advise not to allow >> unsanctioned fork of Python 2.7 to call itself Python 2.8. >> > But if it were sanctioned ... ? We *are* pretty magnanimous ;-) I think it foolish to speculate in the absence of specifics. If some people wanted to coninue bug-fix maintainance of 2.7 after the main group of developers is done with it, in 5 years, then no new name is needed. If some people wanted to backport additional 3.x features, while still keeping the old, obsolete stuff around, then '2.8' would be appropriate. If some people wanted to add a collection of incompatible new features, perhaps some that Guido has rejected for 'Python', so that they were producing a real fork, then a new name should be used. I consider the first option possible, assuming that significant bugs still remain in 5 years. The second seems more dubious, as the developers have already backported most of what they thought sensible. The third has always been possible, and has been done, and there would be nothing really special about using 2.7 as a base. Terry Jan Reedy
From: Ethan Furman on 28 Jan 2010 12:35 Steven D'Aprano wrote: > 4. Python 3 will make you irresistible to women. > > FALSE What?!? Drat!!! Guess I'll have to learn Lisp... ;) ~Ethan~
From: Ben Finney on 28 Jan 2010 16:33 Antoine Pitrou <solipsis(a)pitrou.net> writes: > Le Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:19:24 +0000, Steven D'Aprano a écrit : > > 4. Python 3 will make you irresistible to women. > > > > FALSE - Python 3 coders are no more likely to get a date than > > any other programmer. > > They spend less time coding, so they /can/ get more "dates" (what a > strange English word) :-) Perhaps Steven could tell you about a lovely Australian meaning for the word “date”. -- \ “Even if the voices in my head are not real, they have pretty | `\ good ideas.” —anonymous | _o__) | Ben Finney
From: Mensanator on 28 Jan 2010 18:49 On Jan 28, 11:35 am, Ethan Furman <et...(a)stoneleaf.us> wrote: > Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > 4. Python 3 will make you irresistible to women. > > > FALSE > > What?!? Drat!!! Guess I'll have to learn Lisp... ;) Irresisible? Ha! The chicks will think you have a harelip. > > ~Ethan~
From: Gib Bogle on 28 Jan 2010 19:57
Ethan Furman wrote: > Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> 4. Python 3 will make you irresistible to women. >> >> FALSE > > What?!? Drat!!! Guess I'll have to learn Lisp... ;) > > ~Ethan~ Learn to say this fast, you'll impress the hell out of them: Chaps with chapped lips lisp. |