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 1Mp8To-0000tw-IY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 22:32:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8D8FCE0959; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 22:32:31 +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 70858E0959 for ; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 22:32:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh34 with SMTP id 34so2635730ywh.10 for ; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:32:31 -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=/m+iJmejyx6Qv25PYrUMqfDQlO8fUKx0Ut3vlM1Y8FU=; b=VCanTnm5h5O65zhQLxMSbHCKWZNDLZZ2CW5hT1CDMboKFCrWN1b/jx5HFDSBupeFK8 nT8Lth53e0HkSHRpcjBR8lIj8+m0VTMeJZ2WK7ddpc8sNRO+Rj5tm29DB9l+opZjngOd p7RjLd9cKcZi6P0zNgvo/44niyrxbefIubd4Y= 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=sXOTXIcUVMoFJQvUSXVQmR5IIABltIPOmTMVccDQ5ASw1aOJO7ctvGHeerUrkg60fl Kj8tlVYmlq6uTZ0GZjgt3YyIKHBos4NeM7Twyp+xRfTvmvriTJ9FBE0VHMmbCjghqYpf /kKMYSeMtM3WLIv1EGClaaA5602ewlKaGad4c= Received: by 10.91.203.25 with SMTP id f25mr2122853agq.13.1253399550980; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:32:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.1? (adsl-144-216-98.jan.bellsouth.net [70.144.216.98]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 30sm628507agc.18.2009.09.19.15.32.29 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:32:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4AB55BFC.4070205@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 17:32:28 -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> <4AB51317.1000108@gmail.com> <1253381283.31816.9.camel@TesterBox.tester.ca> In-Reply-To: <1253381283.31816.9.camel@TesterBox.tester.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: b4b030f8-0e9c-4460-9db4-2344ec4407f5 X-Archives-Hash: a9635a2a0219dbe80398bf550502e88b Olivier Cr=EAte wrote: > On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 12:21 -0500, Dale wrote: > =20 >> Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: >> =20 >>> On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 19:06, Alex Legler wrote: >>> =20 >>> =20 >>>> What is the point of stabilizing it if users shouldn't use it as mai= n >>>> interpreter? Just leave it in ~arch until it can be safely used. >>>> =20 >>>> =20 >>> 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. >>> =20 >> Isn't ~arch supposed to be for testing? Isn't that the point of havin= g >> ~arch? >> =20 > > ~arch is for testing ebuilds, not the upstream package > > =20 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.=20 Dale :-) :-)=20