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 1NnSrP-000818-CM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:26:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D58E9E0E11; Fri, 5 Mar 2010 08:26:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB801E0B20 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 2010 08:25:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from angelstorm (cpe-76-93-187-113.san.res.rr.com [76.93.187.113]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3237E1B4113 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 2010 08:25:50 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 00:25:45 -0800 From: Joshua Saddler To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item Message-ID: <20100305002545.499ac845@angelstorm> In-Reply-To: <201003041923.17749.Arfrever@gentoo.org> References: <201003041923.17749.Arfrever@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.2 (GTK+ 2.16.6; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) 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; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/DMNXq28FDROaLADgUkdy6fz"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 073935e7-8b87-4e25-8bb3-9018928bfa6f X-Archives-Hash: 768885ed0b33b610d1a5aeab9b20eae3 --Sig_/DMNXq28FDROaLADgUkdy6fz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 19:22:41 +0100 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: > Python 3 is a new major version of Python and is intentionally incompatib= le > with Python 2. Many external modules have not been ported yet to Python 3= , so > currently Python 3.1 should not be set as main active version of Python. > Setting Python 3.1 as main active version of Python is currently unsuppor= ted. > When it will change, a separate news item will be created to notify users. So nothing uses it yet, and it's completely incompatible with 90% of the nu= merous python/pygtk apps already on my system, so it'll just sit there, SLO= Tted, doing nothing but taking up more space on my very limited SSD, while = Python 2.6 is the version that's actually in use by every single app. > Currently Python 3.1 should *NOT* be set as [the] main active version of > Python. (emphasis and grammar fix mine) So . . . why the heck are you stabilizing it? Please don't spam me or the other users by sticking us with a useless new v= ersion. Leave it in ~arch -- it's not at all necessary to force the upgrade= by stabilizing it. We're completely dependent on the hundreds of upstream Python-coded project= s to switch on their timetable. Forcing a useless Python version to be the = default in Gento doesn't force *them* to write 3.x-compatible code. --Sig_/DMNXq28FDROaLADgUkdy6fz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkuQwAsACgkQxPWMzpKk6kPlOgCdEU8X62NA1q9eWU+9zF9AgDzZ 6ycAnRa01wn0MRmhCljb19hvaOwFTG7S =3Jdd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/DMNXq28FDROaLADgUkdy6fz--