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AllenJB <gentoo-lists <at> allenjb.me.uk> writes: |
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> As a user who has spent a lot of time on IRC and the forums supporting |
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> other users, I think I can safely say that stabilizing a version of |
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> python which is not supported by portage will end up in a nightmare |
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> scenario. At the very least portage, python-updater and eselect, if not |
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> the majority of the commonly used tools (whichever of gentoolkit, |
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> portage-utils, eix, etc use python), should support python 3.1 before it |
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> goes stable. |
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1) All those tools (eselect, python-wrapper, python-updater) are written in |
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other languages specifically to ensure a means to update python |
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2) There has existed for a very long time patches to portage to make it |
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compatible with python3.x |
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Stabilizing Python3.x isn't really an issue as long as some means to ensure |
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people do not emerge -c a python2.x version (eg adding it to the system profile) |
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