Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

[Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis]

2010-03-25 19:34:24 Roy Bamford napisał(a):
> On 2010.03.24 21:12, William Hubbs wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 09:36:52PM +0100, Ben de Groot wrote:
> > > On 24 March 2010 21:25, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
> > > > If we make it clear in the news item that python-3 cannot be used
> > as the
> > > > default python, so if users do not want it they should mask it,
> > we
> > have
> > > > done our job imho.  In other words, this is just a matter of
> > informing
> > > > users.
> > >
> > > We agree that this is the minimum that should be done. But our
> > > Python lead stubbornly refuses to honor this reasonable request.
> >
> >  On the other hand, I can see his point as well.  The news item makes
> > it
> >  very clear that python-3 cannot be the default python and that
> > python-2
> >  needs to be installed.
> >
> > It could be argued that he is just assuming that users are
> > intelligent
> > enough to figure out  that they need to mask python-3 if they
> > do not want it on their systems.
> >
> > Basically this is a case of "how much hand-holding do we want to do"?
> >
> > William
> >
> >
>
> The case where Python-3 cannot be used as the default Python is
> transitory (it may be a long time).

Gentoo Python Project will soon start supporting setting Python 3 as main
active version of Python. Currently about 57% of our packages from dev-python
category are prepared.

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Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis