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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1
From: Dirkjan Ochtman <djc@gentoo.org>
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On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 19:06, Alex Legler <a3li@gentoo.org> 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