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 1MpNeq-0004ej-Kz for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 14:44:56 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A04A4E07C7; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 14:44:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from IMPaqm1.telefonica.net (impaqm1.telefonica.net [213.4.129.21]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CD5AE07C7 for ; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 14:44:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from IMPmailhost3.adm.correo ([10.20.102.124]) by IMPaqm1.telefonica.net with bizsmtp id izut1c00U2h2L9m012ku9J; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 16:44:54 +0200 Received: from jesgue.homelinux.org ([78.136.66.163]) by IMPmailhost3.adm.correo with BIZ IMP id j2kt1c0023XLmEe1j2ktLc; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 16:44:54 +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 16:44:52 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?Q?Jes=C3=BAs_Guerrero?= To: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1 In-Reply-To: <200909192051.24168.Arfrever.FTA@gmail.com> References: <200909191848.33225.Arfrever@gentoo.org> <20090919182249.GA22241@eric.schwarzvogel.de> <200909192051.24168.Arfrever.FTA@gmail.com> Message-ID: 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: 52578a05-fcf5-41db-b63e-22ee93652e5d X-Archives-Hash: 7828514bc01efda7e7326a9b37c579c1 On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:51:17 +0200, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: > 2009-09-19 20:22:49 Tobias Klausmann napisa=C5=82(a): >> Hi!=20 >>=20 >> Aside from the remarks made by others (and speaking as someone >> who maintains Python software), there is one reason for me to not >> switch Python 3 to stable yet: lack of compatibility. Software >> that runs with 3.x will not run with any 2.x version as of today >=20 > It's possible (and not too hard) to write code which works with > Python 3 and 2.6. It might be also possible to support older > versions, but it would require many ugly exec() calls etc. "Possible" doesn't equal to "real". Most software won't work with 3.1, TODAY. --=20 Jes=C3=BAs Guerrero