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From: "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:10:40
Message-Id: 4AB6620C.8040905@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1 by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
1 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote:
2 > 2009-09-20 16:44:09 Jesús Guerrero napisał(a):
3 >> On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:09:38 +0200, Dirkjan Ochtman <djc@g.o>
4 >> wrote:
5 >>> On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 19:06, Alex Legler <a3li@g.o> wrote:
6 >>>> What is the point of stabilizing it if users shouldn't use it as main
7 >>>> interpreter? Just leave it in ~arch until it can be safely used.
8 >>> Making it easily available so that people can port stuff, so that the
9 >>> entire world may be able to use it as their main interpreter sooner?
10 >> Ummm, if someone is not able to keywords the ~arch package, I doubt,
11 >> highly doubt, that s/he is going to be able to port anything, seriously...
12 >
13 > Some packages (whose older versions might be stable) might soon start requiring
14 > Python 3. Stabilization of these packages cannot be delayed due to the fact
15 > that some other packages don't work with Python 3.
16 >
17
18 Yes indeed and when you have enough apps needing Python 3, it's much
19 easier to sell python 3 to the developer base as there's actually
20 benefit to users.
21
22 Regards,
23 Petteri

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