On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 12:28:47PM -0500, Arc Riley wrote: > > The main thing holding back the community are lazy and/or obstinate package > maintainers. If they spent half the time they've put into complaining about > Py3 into actually working to upgrade their code they'd be done now.
The main reason the package maintainers are so "lazy and/or obstinate" is that Python 2 is much more available than Python 3. For example, work is being completed on a python3 RPM, but it will first appear in Fedora 13, not Fedora 12. RHEL is still using Python 2.4 and won't even get Python 2.6 until RHEL 6 comes out. I don't think it's worth worrying about packages being upgraded to Python 3 when many or most users still don't have access to Python 3. In my opinion, the best place for current efforts is on infrastructure: 1) Python 3 packages for all Linux distributions (I've recently been involved with bringing Python 3 to Fedora) 2) WSGI/mod_python, etc.: according to http://wsgi.org/wsgi/Amendments_1.0 and various blog posts, the WSGI standard isn't defined for Python 3 yet, and the modwsgi page at http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/ does not yet list a Python 3 release. 3) Numpy/scipy: as others have mentioned, numpy is essential for scientific work, and apparently the project needs help to add support for Python 3 Before basic infrastructure is available for Python 3, it's absurd to expect package maintainers to flock to it. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868 _______________________________________________ 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
