Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

["Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@gentoo.org>]

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Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote:
> 2009-09-20 16:44:09 Jesús Guerrero napisał(a):
>> On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:09:38 +0200, Dirkjan Ochtman <djc@gentoo.org>
>> 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?
>> Ummm, if someone is not able to keywords the ~arch package, I doubt,
>> highly doubt, that s/he is going to be able to port anything, seriously...
> 
> Some packages (whose older versions might be stable) might soon start requiring
> Python 3. Stabilization of these packages cannot be delayed due to the fact
> that some other packages don't work with Python 3.
> 

Yes indeed and when you have enough apps needing Python 3, it's much
easier to sell python 3 to the developer base as there's actually
benefit to users.

Regards,
Petteri


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