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 1MpNjj-0005V7-WF for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 14:50:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DFFA1E08C8; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 14:49:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from IMPaqm5.telefonica.net (impaqm5.telefonica.net [213.4.129.25]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6389AE08C8 for ; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 14:49:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from IMPmailhost2.adm.correo ([10.20.102.39]) by IMPaqm5.telefonica.net with bizsmtp id j16N1c00U0r0BT63R2px5T; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 16:49:57 +0200 Received: from jesgue.homelinux.org ([78.136.66.163]) by IMPmailhost2.adm.correo with BIZ IMP id j2pv1c00G3XLmEe1i2pw1a; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 16:49:57 +0200 X-TE-authinfo: authemail="i92guboj.terra.es" |auth_email="i92guboj@terra.es" X-TE-AcuTerraCos: auth_cuTerraCos="cosuitera01" 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: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 16:49:55 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?Q?Jes=C3=BAs_Guerrero?= To: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1 In-Reply-To: <200909200855.01012.ali_bush@gentoo.org> References: <200909191848.33225.Arfrever@gentoo.org> <200909200855.01012.ali_bush@gentoo.org> Message-ID: <5ba94c2a47145612772ac95cd2f6e323@localhost> X-Sender: i92guboj@terra.es User-Agent: RoundCube Webmail/0.3-stable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 29deca5a-8f50-4bcb-9ef3-ca077a82cf0b X-Archives-Hash: 117bde0386d6212b0c3d5563f73e1ee8 On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 08:55:00 +1200, Alistair Bush wrote: >> Stabilization of Python 3.1.* will be requested at the beginning of >> november. There was a suggestion to create a news item which would >> inform >> users that temporarily they shouldn't switch to Python 3 as their mai= n >> interpreter. Python ebuilds don't automatically activate Python 3, so >> I'm >> not sure if the news item is required. What is your opinion about it? >>=20 >=20 > Stablise. >=20 > And to pacify all the cry babies out there could we update portage tool= s > to=20 > call /usr/bin/python2.6 directly? Yes, we could. And *AFTER* that happens, then it will be time to *cry* ;) for the stabilization of 3.1, not now. Some people don't seem to realize that most distros are not using 3.1, and even if they were using it, Gent= oo would still be a very special case because python is a core piece in this OS, and not on any other. --=20 Jes=C3=BAs Guerrero