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 1MpPvs-00049Q-LR for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:10:40 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4D1CCE0839; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:10:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from petteriraty.eu (host.petteriraty.eu [188.40.80.83]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 149D0E0839 for ; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:10:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [82.130.46.231] (qob7.kyla.fi [82.130.46.231]) by petteriraty.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3D7E735342 for ; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:10:38 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4AB6620C.8040905@gentoo.org> Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:10:36 +0300 From: =?UTF-8?B?UGV0dGVyaSBSw6R0eQ==?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fi; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090916 Thunderbird/2.0.0.23 Mnenhy/0.7.6.666 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> <200909201746.25278.Arfrever@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200909201746.25278.Arfrever@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 OpenPGP: url=http://users.tkk.fi/~praty/public.asc Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig51131CEC6CC550B7C8675F22" X-Archives-Salt: 07d7afed-aedd-4e7e-8c06-daa9be78f26f X-Archives-Hash: 742038167e7ea337d022ec039c154862 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig51131CEC6CC550B7C8675F22 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: > 2009-09-20 16:44:09 Jes=C3=BAs Guerrero napisa=C5=82(a): >> On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:09:38 +0200, 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 mai= n >>>> 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, seriousl= y... >=20 > Some packages (whose older versions might be stable) might soon start r= equiring > Python 3. Stabilization of these packages cannot be delayed due to the = fact > that some other packages don't work with Python 3. >=20 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 --------------enig51131CEC6CC550B7C8675F22 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkq2Yg8ACgkQcxLzpIGCsLR3VgCfZHoLfkOXPUYNo2+WLdssXvhQ kBIAn3S43I+vi9tupBwiIlMdSvWTOMQ0 =zee5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig51131CEC6CC550B7C8675F22--