Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Stabilization of Python 3.1

[Francesco R]

On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 1:31 AM, Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@g.o> wrote:

> On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 08:55:00 +1200
> Alistair Bush <ali_bush@g.o> wrote:
>
> > > Stabilization of Python 3.1.* will be requested at the beginning of
> > >  november. There was a suggestion to create a news item which would
> inform
> > >  users that temporarily they shouldn't switch to Python 3 as their main
> > >  interpreter. Python ebuilds don't automatically activate Python 3, so
> I'm
> > >  not sure if the news item is required. What is your opinion about it?
> > >
> >
> > Stablise.
> >
> > And to pacify all the cry babies out there could we update portage tools
> to
> > call /usr/bin/python2.6 directly? (yes I realise this will break, but at
> least
> > it is a suggestion)   Or how about we (remove python3.1 from the
> menu)/(stick
> > a big fat warning message)/(do something else) on eselect-python.  Or
> create a
> > "system-python" link that all gentoo core apps use instead of
> /usr/bin/python
> > (longer term solution?).  [rant]Hell maybe we could even start using
> those
> > slot dep thingy me bobbies to depend only a slot. So ppl don't have
> python3.1
> > unless something depends on it.  Does portage have support for slots in
> world?
> > [/rant]
>
> Or we could, say, leave it ~arch.
>
> Why do you need python-3 in stable?
>
>
Someone here want people install paludis? because when I've switched to
python 3.0 just out of curiosity, it broke totally that python written
package manager who is portage.
So another package manager was needed to re-install a sane portage.

Still, do you really want to have it in tree as stable? Really?
Than at least please update eselect python in such a way it could not in any
case be used to choose a python version >= 3