On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 11:22, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: > > It needs to be decided where the hg repositories will live. I'd like >> to propose to keep the hgwebdir instance at hg.python.org. This is an >> accepted standard for many organizations, and an easy parallel to >> svn.python.org. The 2.7 (trunk) repo might live at >> http://hg.python.org/main/, for example, with py3k at >> http://hg.python.org/py3k/. >> > > I would very much like the 'k' dropped from the py3 name. It was a funny > joke when py3 was vaporware, now it is excess baggage which only puzzles > non-insiders and newcomers. >
Is it really that confusing? I have never heard of anyone asking "what is py3k?" Plus I like keeping that bit of Python history around. I know I still use py3k as shorthand for Python 3.x. And we are not that serious of a bunch. =) > > I think the two repos should be either symmetrically named > > hg.python.org/py2 > hg.python.org/py3 > If we make it universal I say it should be '2.x' and '3.x'. The whole 'py' prefix is redundant. > > If one must be designated 'main', it should be py3. > > Continuing to call py2 'main' will continue to discourage use of py3. Yeah, 2.x shouldn't be special anymore.
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