2009-09-19 20:20:10 AllenJB napisał(a):
> Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 19:06, Alex Legler <a3li@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >> What is the point of stabilizing it if users shouldn't use it as main
> >> interpreter? Just leave it in ~arch until it can be safely used.
> > 
> > Making it easily available so that people can port stuff, so that the
> > entire world may be able to use it as their main interpreter sooner?
> > 
> > Seriously, it's out there, there's no reason to keep it from stable.
> > Just prevent people from making python invoke 3.x and everything will
> > be fine.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Dirkjan
> > 
> 
> Yes, there is a very good reason: The sanity of the users and those who
> support them.
> 
> As a user who has spent a lot of time on IRC and the forums supporting
> other users, I think I can safely say that stabilizing a version of
> python which is not supported by portage will end up in a nightmare
> scenario. At the very least portage, python-updater and eselect, if not
> the majority of the commonly used tools (whichever of gentoolkit,
> portage-utils, eix, etc use python), should support python 3.1 before it
> goes stable.

python-updater and eselect are written in bash. portage-utils are written
in C. eix is written in C++.

> perhaps add a block to eselect so that python-3.1 can't be selected as
> the system python interpreter until portage supports it.

Users might want to sometimes temporarily switch to Python 3 to test some
Portage-unrelated code.
Anyway Portage will support Python 3 soon.

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