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Re:Reasons Python Sucks by erik_seaberg on Sunday January 15, 2023 @01:32AM (#34387237)
3.0 or 4.0 is the time to drop a user-facing feature. If 3.11 is not backward compatible, they aren’t following semver. I won’t assume every minor version bump must break stuff, but I have to be aware that it might and budget time for fixes.
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Re:Reasons Python Sucks by okasaki on Sunday January 15, 2023 @01:40AM (#34387272)
Does Python claim to follow semver? If not then I'm not sure what your point is.
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Re:Reasons Python Sucks by erik_seaberg on Sunday January 15, 2023 @02:07AM (#34387372)
From https://peps.python.org/pep-0006/ it seems that 3.10.9 is expected to be compatible with 3.10.8, but users need to treat 3.11.0 as potentially a major rather than minor release. I wish they had labeled it 311.0 to communicate this and set expectations.
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Re:Reasons Python Sucks by pdonis on Sunday January 15, 2023 @05:11PM (#34394137)
PEP 006 describes the way Python versioning has worked since Python was first released. Yes, it's technically not quite the same as current semver, but current semver didn't exist anyway back then.
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