[Python-Dev] #Python3 ! ? (was Python Library Support in 3.x)

Mon Jun 21 21:55:55 CEST 2010

Laurens Van Houtven wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com> wrote:
>> <nod> Fedora 14 is about the same. A nice to have thing that goes along
>> with these would be a table that has packages ported to python3 and which
>> distributions have the python3 version of the package.
>> Yeah, this is exactly why I'd prefer to not have to maintain a
> specific list. Big distros are making Python 3.x available, it's not
> the default interpreter yet anywhere (AFAIK?), but that's going to
> happen in the next few releases of said distributions.
>> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Arc Riley <arcriley at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Personally, I'd like to celebrate the upcoming Python 3.2 release (which
>> will hopefully include 3to2) with moving all packages which do not have the
>> 'Programming Language :: Python :: 3' classifier to a "Legacy" section of
>> PyPI and offer only Python 3 packages otherwise. Of course put a banner at
>> the top clearly explaining that Python 2 packages can be found in the Legacy
>> section.
>>>> Radical, I know, but at some point we really need to make this move.
>> I agree we have to make it at some point but I feel this is way, way too early.
>> thanks for your continued input,
> Laurens

But it's never too early to plan for something you know to be
inevitable. More planning might have helped earlier on. I don't think
it's likely to hurt now.
regards
 Steve
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