Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Olivier Crête wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 12:21 -0500, Dale wrote:
>   
>> Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
>>     
>>> On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 19:06, Alex Legler <a3li@gentoo.org> 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.
>>>       
>> Isn't ~arch supposed to be for testing?  Isn't that the point of having
>> ~arch?
>>     
>
> ~arch is for testing ebuilds, not the upstream package
>
>   

So it would be OK to mark something "stable" even tho portage itself
doesn't work with it?  Sorry, this makes no sense to me.  I run stable
for the most part and having a package that portage depends on that is
not stable just sounds a little like putting the cart before the horse.

See some of the other replies as to why this is a not so good idea. 

Dale

:-)  :-)