On 13 December 2011 10:29, Yuval Greenfield <ubershme...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi catalog-sig, I'm the wall of shame guy, > > This was just brought to my attention by Chris via reddit so I'm sorry > for chiming in late. > > Toshio Kuratomi is correct: > > Additionally, I'm not certain of the use case cited. Isn't the utility > of > > a site like http://python3wos.appspot.com/ in seeing which popular or > > widely depended upon packages have no python3 version? With that in > mind, > > the listing on that page wouldn't seem to depend on whether a package's > > author intends to port to python3. > > 1. If this forum likes it I'll add a lock icon next to packages with > the "Programming Language :: Python :: 2 :: Only" classifier with the > following mouse-over: "The maintainers of this code have declared it > will run on Python 2 only for the foreseeable future". This might > lessen the social pressure on the maintainers to port. I don't think > it'll help the PR issue. > > 2. A more useful classifier (in terms of PR) could be "Programming > Language :: Python :: 2 :: Py3k equivalent exists". Which would denote > that I can entirely remove the red package from the wall. This is > currently done manually for the following: 'multiprocessing', > 'simplejson', 'argparse', 'uuid', 'setuptools', 'Jinja'. So feel free > to tell me if there are more I should add to this list. unittest2 has a Python 3 port: unittest2py3k docutils is also Python 3 compatible (since version 0.6), even if they're not using the trove classifier. http://docutils.sourceforge.net/ All the best, Michael Foord > A classifier > would mean more work for everyone, though it is the pure and correct > way to go about this. > > And I hope I'm not considered the bad guy here. Please do contact me > with any questions or suggestions. I only want to promote python 3 > though I know the site has a dual edge to its sword. > > > --Yuval > _______________________________________________ > Catalog-SIG mailing list > Catalog-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig > -- http://www.voidspace.org.uk/ May you do good and not evil May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others May you share freely, never taking more than you give. -- the sqlite blessing http://www.sqlite.org/different.html
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