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| author | Erlend E. Aasland <erlend.aasland@protonmail.com> | 2023-06-16 08:41:47 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2023-06-16 08:41:47 (GMT) |
| commit | 0bffe1acd78069ea21f6b1347bec9cc9747342cb (patch) | |
| tree | 3c371cf1e6637b48bd6a1ae04a596d84d3bd26fa /Doc | |
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gh-105844: Consistently use 'minor version' for X.Y versions (#105851)
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diff --git a/Doc/faq/general.rst b/Doc/faq/general.rst index a9b2622..298ce11 100644 --- a/Doc/faq/general.rst +++ b/Doc/faq/general.rst @@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ Python versions are numbered "A.B.C" or "A.B": See :pep:`6` for more information about bugfix releases. -Not all releases are bugfix releases. In the run-up to a new major release, a +Not all releases are bugfix releases. In the run-up to a new minor release, a series of development releases are made, denoted as alpha, beta, or release candidate. Alphas are early releases in which interfaces aren't yet finalized; it's not unexpected to see an interface change between two alpha releases. @@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ How stable is Python? Very stable. New, stable releases have been coming out roughly every 6 to 18 months since 1991, and this seems likely to continue. As of version 3.9, -Python will have a major new release every 12 months (:pep:`602`). +Python will have a minor new release every 12 months (:pep:`602`). The developers issue "bugfix" releases of older versions, so the stability of existing releases gradually improves. Bugfix releases, indicated by a third diff --git a/Doc/install/index.rst b/Doc/install/index.rst index ab581d7..beb34f0 100644 --- a/Doc/install/index.rst +++ b/Doc/install/index.rst @@ -696,7 +696,7 @@ is supplied to suppress this behaviour. So you could simply edit import sys sys.path.append('/www/python/') -However, if you reinstall the same major version of Python (perhaps when +However, if you reinstall the same minor version of Python (perhaps when upgrading from 2.2 to 2.2.2, for example) :file:`site.py` will be overwritten by the stock version. You'd have to remember that it was modified and save a copy before doing the installation. |