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 1Mp6xZ-0004R9-CI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:55:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5DB94E0888; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:55:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailfilter42.ihug.co.nz (mailfilter42.ihug.co.nz [203.109.136.42]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3004E0888 for ; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:55:07 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AsAEAHvitEp2XUgv/2dsb2JhbACBUsphhBsFgViGJg X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.44,416,1249214400"; d="scan'208";a="203898045" Received: from 118-93-72-47.dsl.dyn.ihug.co.nz (HELO linux.localnet) ([118.93.72.47]) by smtp.mailfilter4.ihug.co.nz with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 20 Sep 2009 08:55:06 +1200 From: Alistair Bush Organization: Gentoo Linux To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1 Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 08:55:00 +1200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.1 (Linux/2.6.31-gentoo; KDE/4.3.1; x86_64; ; ) References: <200909191848.33225.Arfrever@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200909191848.33225.Arfrever@gentoo.org> 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 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200909200855.01012.ali_bush@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: e6251469-c4ee-4f01-bcae-632c5c7b24f9 X-Archives-Hash: 3d7a6daa3a52175e977726002dbe4cf0 > Stabilization of Python 3.1.* will be requested at the beginning of > november. There was a suggestion to create a news item which would inform > users that temporarily they shouldn't switch to Python 3 as their main > interpreter. Python ebuilds don't automatically activate Python 3, so I'm > not sure if the news item is required. What is your opinion about it? > Stablise. And to pacify all the cry babies out there could we update portage tools to call /usr/bin/python2.6 directly? (yes I realise this will break, but at least it is a suggestion) Or how about we (remove python3.1 from the menu)/(stick a big fat warning message)/(do something else) on eselect-python. Or create a "system-python" link that all gentoo core apps use instead of /usr/bin/python (longer term solution?). [rant]Hell maybe we could even start using those slot dep thingy me bobbies to depend only a slot. So ppl don't have python3.1 unless something depends on it. Does portage have support for slots in world? [/rant] Solutions ppl. Thats is what we need. Not "oh poor woe is me". Alistair.