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 1MpQ8R-0006JW-S6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:23:40 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A8F18E076C; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:23:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8363DE076C for ; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:23:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from afta-gentoo.localnet (ip-85-198-235-97.broker.com.pl [85.198.235.97]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00FD567974 for ; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:23:38 +0000 (UTC) From: Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis To: Gentoo Development Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1 Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 19:25:59 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.1 (Linux/2.6.30-tuxonice-r5-AFTA; KDE/4.3.1; x86_64; ; ) References: <200909191848.33225.Arfrever@gentoo.org> <200909201746.25278.Arfrever@gentoo.org> <200909201852.06072.rbu@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200909201852.06072.rbu@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: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart4678185.HxLgWb40Hk"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200909201926.04211.Arfrever@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 5a340381-b83f-43eb-8212-a8b867f45cbc X-Archives-Hash: b5a969cc893a0230f89d8d234a6da98a --nextPart4678185.HxLgWb40Hk Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 2009-09-20 18:51:53 Robert Buchholz napisa=C5=82(a): > On Sunday 20 September 2009, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: > > Some packages (whose older versions might be stable) might soon start > > requiring Python 3. Stabilization of these packages cannot be delayed > > due to the fact that some other packages don't work with Python 3. >=20 > Of course they can. That is exactly the reason I am using a distribution= =20 > (instead of LFS), because I expect maintainers of packages to=20 > coordinate and define a working set of packages for me to use. This=20 > includes holding back updates, fast-tracking updates, forward- and=20 > backward-porting. Automatisms in updates and blindly following upstream=20 > removes that extra value we are there to provide. I agree. But Python 3.1 doesn't have more issues than Python 2.6, so the stabilization is reasonable. =2D-=20 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis --nextPart4678185.HxLgWb40Hk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.13 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkq2ZawACgkQIEGVSeBq/j7VKwCdG3ybi9FbRAonyYxZ0Qufvfja 8Q8An2pjwiFX9FsBZ9sijux6p5p94g9j =ba0T -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart4678185.HxLgWb40Hk--