On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:35 AM, sstein...@gmail.com <sstein...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Nov 3, 2009, at 12:23 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:04 AM, James Y Knight <f...@fuhm.net> wrote: >>> >>> If that happens, it's not true that there's *nowhere* to go. A solution >>> would be to discard 3.x as a failed experiment, take everything that is >>> useful from it and port it to 2.x, and simply continue development from >>> the >>> last 2.x release. And from there, features can be deprecated and then >>> removed a few releases later, as is the usual policy. >>> >>> Been there, done that, on a couple other projects. It's unfortunate when >>> you >>> have to throw out work you've done because it failed to gain traction >>> over >>> the thing you tried to replace, but sometimes that's life. >> >> I'm not ready for that yet. I think there's plenty of time before we >> have to agree to such a bleak view. In the mean time let's do >> something practical like help NumPy port to Py3k. > > Or, for example, Django...
Wasn't Django ported to Py3k by MvL as a demo? The problem seems to be more to port the Django *community* to Py3k... -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
