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 1Mp9N1-0002Af-Lj for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 23:29:35 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 33E02E09A2; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 23:29:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f211.google.com (mail-bw0-f211.google.com [209.85.218.211]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD2E7E09A2 for ; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 23:29:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz7 with SMTP id 7so1288664bwz.34 for ; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:29:33 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=q22b9z/B/lNzbBCNs99vruUKUypYFBH6v4cmmmQl6m0=; b=odyTr7KSfxDKk9sJXv93OcGF+ErhHkpHvAjmfregfgpm+gs1auCJQp1OpQ1e78scZl Kh7NdqYmDatYFmVMebHUtlWckvQS+EYmym/whTo9joAuzKYdskdhDASVSv5SU3VjdpES VT0hB/7eqXXHzu3Z1yHe30qKdZ6Rh45RhgZyU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=IgLEnni2lc5Hui+9lv+9JBqIy3RrAzDrwNZhoPlKR4logrGvzLQlev6fB1ViIflf05 iL90dwX7CgN11S5LXyAqKcxSqK3QPF5pv52nNqinaMePAS7p5s6RsNO7mEN+MRfCg+wP BjIcftUYJYoHX+eRqzTx75ELWMc/hJFLduOLY= 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 Sender: alex.alexander@gmail.com Received: by 10.102.245.20 with SMTP id s20mr1384102muh.74.1253402972992; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:29:32 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <15719e8b0909191321g3e878ee3r16d7f33810e32383@mail.gmail.com> References: <200909191848.33225.Arfrever@gentoo.org> <4AB520DA.7070408@allenjb.me.uk> <200909192059.50198.Arfrever@gentoo.org> <4AB5361E.4040207@gentoo.org> <15719e8b0909191321g3e878ee3r16d7f33810e32383@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 02:29:32 +0300 X-Google-Sender-Auth: c13ba99202d87914 Message-ID: <225000070909191629q2edccff4q3caa86dc7e838897@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1 From: Alex Alexander To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 24249c04-2f7a-4d4b-93a5-69cb1a844a0a X-Archives-Hash: 1ef030401f585569cf0711f9f76a2730 *On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 23:21, Robert Bridge wrote: > So the question isn't SHOULD python-3 be stabilised, it's what will break if > it is surely? There seems to be a misunderstanding on what will happen if/when python 3 gets stabilized. The short answer is... *drum roll*... nothing :) I'm guessing that the idea of getting python 3 stable is to allow people interested in using it to do so easily. We're talking about the stabilization of python 3, NOT switching portage or your system to it. Python 2.6 will continue to be the user's default python even after he installs version 3. In fact, if you're using ~testing you should have it already and your system is probably still working OK :) Now.. if a user decides to switch his system *manually* to python 3 without thinking... he's asking for it :) -- Alex || wired Gentoo Dev www.linuxized.com