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 1NnTYJ-0002ua-CO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:10:38 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C798DE0A45; Fri, 5 Mar 2010 09:10:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9DCFE0E61 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 2010 09:10:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DCEC1B40A3 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 2010 09:10:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwi18 with SMTP id 18so2044449wwi.40 for ; Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:10:20 -0800 (PST) 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 10.216.86.208 with SMTP id w58mr486869wee.45.1267780220137; Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:10:20 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20100305002545.499ac845@angelstorm> References: <201003041923.17749.Arfrever@gentoo.org> <20100305002545.499ac845@angelstorm> From: Dirkjan Ochtman Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 10:10:00 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 2fd2a814-c81d-4ee8-ba3f-734c8b5e09a6 X-Archives-Hash: c2273262d4f185125a522771051dfa1f On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 09:25, Joshua Saddler wrote: > So . . . why the heck are you stabilizing it? Because 'stable' denotes that it works as intended, that it can be installed easily, etc. All of these are true now for python3. There are applications being written for it. We want to package those too. I'm fine with people masking it, and maybe we should make that easier somehow, but 3.x should definitely be stable. > We're completely dependent on the hundreds of upstream Python-coded projects to switch on their timetable. Forcing a useless Python version to be the default in Gento doesn't force *them* to write 3.x-compatible code. It will *NOT* under this proposal be the default. Please formulate more carefully if you want to make an argument. Cheers, Dirkjan