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 1Mp3Bp-0006YG-1X for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:53:37 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2B1E5E06FA; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:53:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E3BAE06FA for ; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:53:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f174.google.com (mail-yx0-f174.google.com [209.85.210.174]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C2D967A4F for ; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:53:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxe4 with SMTP id 4so2140421yxe.32 for ; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 09:53:33 -0700 (PDT) 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 Received: by 10.151.87.17 with SMTP id p17mr5381560ybl.84.1253379213029; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 09:53:33 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <200909191848.33225.Arfrever@gentoo.org> References: <200909191848.33225.Arfrever@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 18:53:33 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1 From: Dirkjan Ochtman To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 4f02ae87-5891-4cce-a153-58395549661b X-Archives-Hash: 09deaaaca6213b432e9202d545c6f65e On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 18:48, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis 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 main 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? I think a news item is probably a good idea, if only because it gives us something to point at. Cheers, Dirkjan