I'm not sure this is the case, but easy_install/pip should check if the package is python 3 compatible or not before installing. To quote you:
If a package is Python 3 compatible, or has a Python 3 version/port/alternative distribution, shouldn't "The Python Package Index" reflect the truth? Yuval Greenfield On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 3:39 PM, Michael Foord <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 13 December 2011 13:24, Yuval Greenfield <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Michael Foord <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On 13 December 2011 10:29, Yuval Greenfield <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> >> 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. >> >> >> > >> > 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. >> > >> >> My initial response was to remove modules that had python 3 >> equivalents on the wall. This makes sense for eg setuptools and jinja >> as it wouldn't be accurate to give them a double green listing and >> skew the percentage. >> >> Packages that have a single listing on the top 200 and have a python 3 >> equivalent I should mark as green. I guess the best solution would be >> to consolidate these packages. I'll work on it. >> >> Concerning docutils, I sent an email to Lea Wiemann >> ([email protected]) and am cc-ing David Goodger for the trove >> classifier though I don't think I can be held responsible for this >> one. > > > > What do you mean by held responsible? If a package is Python 3 compatible, > or has a Python 3 version/port/alternative distribution, shouldn't "wall of > shame" (I *really* dislike the name for what it's worth and cringe every > time I write it) reflect the truth? > > All the best, > > Michael > >> >> >> >> Yuval Greenfield > > > > > -- > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
