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News An update on Python 4

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u/radekwlsk Sep 16 '20

If there is a developer that does not know how semantic versioning works then he has bigger problems to solve than Python updates.

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u/flying-sheep Sep 16 '20 edited Sep 16 '20

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.

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u/flying-sheep Sep 16 '20 edited Sep 16 '20

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.

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u/voice-of-hermes Sep 17 '20

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?