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 1NvDKT-00011H-6l for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:28:17 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3DCA5E09BF; Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:27:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from jolexa.net (jolexa.net [69.164.197.24]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 213F1E097D for ; Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:27:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by jolexa.net (Postfix, from userid 101) id C62CB5BCBD; Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:27:46 +0000 (UTC) To: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item 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 Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:27:46 +0000 From: Jeremy Olexa In-Reply-To: References: <201003241814.45606.Arfrever@gentoo.org> <4BACAA07.90409@gentoo.org> <20100326154037.GB5254@hrair> <201003261657.23058.Arfrever@gentoo.org> <4BACDBFC.70706@gmail.com> Message-ID: <514ddb279c50229fe502fd9bee495cd3@jolexa.net> X-Sender: darkside@gentoo.org User-Agent: RoundCube Webmail/0.3.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 1d44aca9-2dad-4dca-9d7f-f3832599d4b7 X-Archives-Hash: a9a48fdfc92c6a8ae682bec036e349d4 On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:28:29 +0000, Alec Warner wrote: > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Dale wrote: >> As a user, I still think this could turn into a real mess. =C2=A0I thi= nk there >> will be quite a few that will see python being updated, run python-updater >> and switch it to the new python. =C2=A0At that point, it is going to h= it the fan. >> =C2=A0I know because this is what I always do. =C2=A0News item or not,= when python >> gets updated, I run python-updater and make sure it is selected. >=20 > My assumption here is that eselect-python will not let you select v3 > as your python version without some prodding (eg setting stupid > environment variables or similar.) Alec, don't assume ;) * Messages for package dev-lang/python-3.1.2: *=20 * WARNING! * Many Python modules haven't been ported yet to Python 3.*. * Python 3 hasn't been activated and Python wrapper is still configured to use Python 2. * You can manually activate Python 3.1 using `eselect python set python3.1`. * It is recommended to currently have Python wrapper configured to use Python 2. * Having Python wrapper configured to use Python 3 is unsupported. %% sudo eselect python set python3.1 %% python --version Python 3.1.2 -Jeremy