Reading a thread from the last time something like that was proposed (although the only change in that proposal was that 2.8 would, on Windows, use the C runtim

Reading a thread from the last time something like that was proposed (although the only change in that proposal was that 2.8 would, on Windows, use the C runtime from a more recent MSVC compiler), I found a relevant argument (https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2013-November/130485.html https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2013-November/1...) against this "Python 2.8" idea: What if more than one person did that? (paraphrasing Raymond Chen's "What if two programs did this?") There can be only one official Python 2.8, but since it will never exist (see PEP 404), there can be many unofficial mutually incompatible "Python" 2.8 implementations. Therefore, calling it "Python 2.8" is a bad idea.