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 1PiYpS-0002nq-KD for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 20:52:30 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2D98DE0ADC; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 20:50:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-iw0-f181.google.com (mail-iw0-f181.google.com [209.85.214.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0516CE0ADC for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 20:50:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwn3 with SMTP id 3so3382357iwn.40 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:50:57 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=xJT/EPyEVRXvxVX2kJvPYIXSDNH5w35dL2f3Xe1iHfQ=; b=HA1U2jwFaVcXqzbSuaAD8jkUqFhggTYSpCFcpckocPu+olvS9PuBFfTZMYAxXVAqgM IrS8o3E6Lz8PWJx+2YxclaWJO1C3NrcR8Mc97xcx6C90GzJzAMeq+FZ3rk7o7ReoNj29 MctxGgXN6I7BXeqC7ydRYPD86lKyUZU75YdP0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=ApR57Oa/zy1yW9iVY/5BQw49So1++DKZj3K4n4em3F/IqK2IX0OE2CAs5G0ysEE54j Q2Odj7gQ8fReXCsGKygh1aWCVbklINdR9WiMcR7on5yw7CHsGGybtZ36skipQGu3ziEo tTfc5VjxQO4oR4XIe6pAbyN6QGQ+g7nFJke2k= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.206.143 with SMTP id fu15mr1610425ibb.3.1296161457261; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:50:57 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.231.11.6 with HTTP; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:50:57 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20110127202101.1e241f3e@digimed.co.uk> References: <20110127202101.1e241f3e@digimed.co.uk> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:50:57 -0600 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Doubt about Python. From: Carlos Sura To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=90e6ba53aa843b4d94049ada1bd1 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 93eca411b2226145a53b2454219c9ae0 --90e6ba53aa843b4d94049ada1bd1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On 27 January 2011 14:21, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 18:31:13 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > > > You can use any version you want for your own apps, but as of a couple > > weeks ago, I know that switching the Gentoo system apps to Python 3 > > would break things. If the system apps are still using 2.6 insteadof > > 2.7, there's probably a reason... > > They don't, they use python:2. This box still works correctly without > python 2.6, nothing complains. It did require a quite lengthy > python-updater run before removing 2.6. > > > -- > Neil Bothwick > > I am NOT a NUMBER! I am a DEMOGRAPHIC! > So.... It is safe or not? I'm currently using python 2.7 with no problems right now or at least I think so... 2.6 and 2.7 are safe, right. Ok, thank you all, I'm going to stay with python 2.7 to see what happens next. Regards, -- Carlos Sura.- --90e6ba53aa843b4d94049ada1bd1 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On 27 January 2011 14:21, Neil Bothwick = <neil@digimed.co= .uk> wrote:
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 18:31:13 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:

> You can use any version you want for your own apps, but as of a couple=
> weeks ago, I know that switching the Gentoo system apps to Python 3 > would break things. =A0If the system apps are still using 2.6 insteado= f
> 2.7, there's probably a reason...

They don't, they use python:2. This box still works correctly without python 2.6, nothing complains. It did require a quite lengthy
python-updater run before removing 2.6.


--
Neil Bothwick

I am NOT a NUMBER! I am a DEMOGRAPHIC!

So.... It is safe or not? I'm currently u= sing python 2.7 with no problems right now or at least I think so... 2.6 an= d 2.7 are safe, right.

Ok, thank you all, I'm going = to stay with python 2.7 to see what happens next.

Regards,

--
Carlos Sura.-=

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