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 1Mp3cs-0001ZJ-E4 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 17:21:34 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CC2C0E0653; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 17:21:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f196.google.com (mail-yw0-f196.google.com [209.85.211.196]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C908E0653 for ; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 17:21:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh34 with SMTP id 34so2484551ywh.10 for ; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 10:21:32 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=VwWkZHZEY3PxkZRAFQCuHGg6WdGlsWUm1RIbT/zJE5c=; b=A13NAjUrCz+Km29aoG0LvaRLKMY05nBcpdgtgghwnWxLIPJ9EB4mA8pGHPOGhnWYRz gyr1C1Jo32NqrU8APhjwxC8FhL7gbCMStRllt2/wnrtSrocoUxaHxJ+rilm59H3kw1qE aYowNXr2Q7FsUNrt1XeZ0us0BfdrCSPrhAB6g= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=eJ07xv8sROizCr8b22DCtEtAU4khZ6HmuubptfcHl1v08Lfrx4ij7TdA35ZsJxv2vO mB6+qihwCeXRYr4cZfitGnlhc6HobS7jbmwAzcAt6/OIisB1X//YrG50JG++wX47cLii 7MMfddLTAD5J9feqpgaCCfwsp6hdFoYYOywAU= Received: by 10.101.98.9 with SMTP id a9mr2865707anm.160.1253380889682; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 10:21:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.1? (adsl-19-156-213.jan.bellsouth.net [68.19.156.213]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 23sm1303348yxe.0.2009.09.19.10.21.28 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 19 Sep 2009 10:21:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4AB51317.1000108@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 12:21:27 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.22) Gecko/20090905 SeaMonkey/1.1.17 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1 References: <200909191848.33225.Arfrever@gentoo.org> <20090919190657.31f109a3@mail.netloc.info> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 032e66a2-f11f-41af-b63e-2be8e9aa2b6c X-Archives-Hash: 9e7500ed91fd4c6e49997d7c3223d385 Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: > On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 19:06, Alex Legler 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 > > > Isn't ~arch supposed to be for testing? Isn't that the point of having ~arch? Dale :-) :-)