From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mp6Qy-00081D-MD for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:21:28 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A142EE0771; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:21:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f174.google.com (mail-yx0-f174.google.com [209.85.210.174]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86A5FE0771 for ; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:21:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxe4 with SMTP id 4so2238105yxe.32 for ; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 13:21:27 -0700 (PDT) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.150.166.3 with SMTP id o3mr5697229ybe.33.1253391686734; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 13:21:26 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [62.40.57.51] In-Reply-To: <4AB5361E.4040207@gentoo.org> References: <200909191848.33225.Arfrever@gentoo.org> <4AB520DA.7070408@allenjb.me.uk> <200909192059.50198.Arfrever@gentoo.org> <4AB5361E.4040207@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:21:26 +0100 Message-ID: <15719e8b0909191321g3e878ee3r16d7f33810e32383@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1 From: Robert Bridge To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=000e0cd5ba124093520473f3fee7 X-Archives-Salt: 8d7545ff-e824-424e-b381-249f0acd2e1d X-Archives-Hash: 1a14f0e7d80d5147ab77f3aed762b805 --000e0cd5ba124093520473f3fee7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Speaking as a user, I seem to recall having multiple versions of python installed in the past, and never really knowing or caring which version was being used so long as stuff worked. If you want to install python-3.14159 in the stable tree, than go right ahead, so long as anything that doesn't work with python-3 can still access python-2 and does so without me knowing, it doesn't matter. So the question isn't SHOULD python-3 be stabilised, it's what will break if it is surely? --000e0cd5ba124093520473f3fee7 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Speaking as a user, I seem to recall having multiple versions of python ins= talled in the past, and never really knowing or caring which version was be= ing used so long as stuff worked. If you want to install python-3.14159 in = the stable tree, than go right ahead, so long as anything that doesn't = work with python-3 can still access python-2 and does so without me knowing= , it doesn't matter.

So the question isn't SHOULD python-3 be stabilised, it's what = will break if it is surely?
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