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 1Mp3RO-0000Mn-9H for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 17:09:42 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 84EB5E07EF; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 17:09:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66232E07EF for ; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 17:09:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f196.google.com (mail-yw0-f196.google.com [209.85.211.196]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1909679C1 for ; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 17:09:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh34 with SMTP id 34so2478033ywh.10 for ; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 10:09:38 -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 10.150.125.2 with SMTP id x2mr311791ybc.342.1253380178469; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 10:09:38 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090919190657.31f109a3@mail.netloc.info> References: <200909191848.33225.Arfrever@gentoo.org> <20090919190657.31f109a3@mail.netloc.info> Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:09:38 +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: 65ff71b8-f5a4-4c2b-8738-8b33eb86f788 X-Archives-Hash: c2bb15f9890b38bd544364cae7b4cb62 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 main > 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? Seriously, it's out there, there's no reason to keep it from stable. Just prevent people from making python invoke 3.x and everything will be fine. Cheers, Dirkjan