On 4 March 2010 22:16, Sebastian Pipping <sp...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On 03/04/10 19:22, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: >> All problems, which were blocking stabilization of Python 3, have been fixed. >> Stabilization of Python 3.1.2 is currently scheduled on 2010-04-19. > > #python on Freenode still reads "It's too early to use Python 3.x". > Are they wrong?
No, they are not wrong. Python 3 is useless for most users. At best it wastes resources by installing extra python-3 versions of packages that will never be used because python-2 is the default interpreter, and they have nothing that really needs python-3. It will also result in needless runs of python-updater. And it may result in breakage specific to python-3 which users would not run into if they had only version 2.x installed. We need some mechanism to prevent installation of python-3 on systems of unsuspecting users, and make sure it only gets installed when the user explicitly chooses to do so. Personally I am recommending people to locally mask python-3*. I think we should consider to add it to our package.mask, unless we can find some other solution. I am not against it being marked stable, but I am against having it pulled in on systems that don't need it. Cheers, -- Ben de Groot Gentoo Linux developer (qt, media, lxde, desktop-misc) ______________________________________________________
