[Stackless] stackless 2.8

[Richard Tew]

No, I just want to be clear on what everyone expects to get out of it.
 For me, as I understand it, it's 2.x with whatever whomever wishes to
backport from 3.x, included.  Therefore, to some degree it would also
serve (with no extra work than any of us plans) as an intermediate
point that lessens effort in migrating to 3.x by being somewhere in
between.

I think that renaming the executable is what you should do.  People
can alias to 'python' as they please.

Cheers,
Richard.

On 1/7/14, Christian Tismer <tismer at stackless.com> wrote:
> Hey Richard,
>
> On 07.01.14 00:30, Richard Tew wrote:
>> There's a lot of discussion going on in the #python2.8 IRC channel at
>> the moment.  Once of the points made, is that it is probably more
>> feasible for political reasons to extend 3.x to have something like a
>> "from __past__import stuff", rather than make a 2.8 that accrues
>> backported features and makes a transition to 3.x easier.
>>
>> It's a pity we're not at the point where we can state what stackless 2.8
>> is.
>
> We can, almost. The merges are there, not yet tested, and many places need
> renaming to stackless 2.8.
>
> This includes scripts like Stackless/tools/pybuild.bat :
> Can I use the name python there, and just change the executable from
> python27 to stackless28?
>
>> What is it, btw?  My understanding of it, and the directions it will
>> head are comprised of a series of points from a variety of different
>> emails.
>
> Do you think to step out of stackless 2.8 now?
> I think we decided that and we do that.
> What is the political crap about? We are making a new stackless version,
> that is not their deal.
>
> Stackless 2.8 is a convenience version with a few minor additions to
> python 2.7
> and stackless support. :-)
>
> Cheers -- Chris
>
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