On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 10:49 PM Barry barry@barrys-emacs.org wrote:
After the trauma of the 3.0 release it would be mad to do a python 4.0 for such a trivial reason as packagers that assumed, wrongly, that version can only have single digits.
And/or codes did character comparisons on version values. I recall the same thing happened with the change from Solaris 5.9 to Solaris 5.10. What is old is new again (because 15 years is apparently too short a time to have actually learned the lessons).