Guido van Rossum wrote: > On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Tres Seaver <tsea...@palladion.com> wrote: >> Any "turdiness" (which I am *not* arguing for) is a natural consequence >> of the kinds of backward incompatibilities which were *not* ruled out >> for Python 3, along with the (early, now waning) "build it and they will >> come" optimism about adoption rates. > > FWIW, my optimisim is *not* waning. I think it's good that we're > having this discussion and I expect something useful will come out of > it; I also expect in general that the (admittedly serious) problem of > having to port all dependencies will be solved in the next few years. > Not by magic, but because many people are taking small steps in the > right direction, and there will be light eventually. In the mean time > I don't blame anyone for sticking with 2.x or being too busy to help > port stuff to 3.x. Python 3 has been a long time in the making -- it > will be a bit longer still, which was expected. > +1
The important thing is to avoid bigotry and FUD, and deal with things the way they are. The #python IRC team have just helped us make a major step forward. This won't be a campaign with a victorious charge over some imaginary finish line. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 See Python Video! http://python.mirocommunity.org/ Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ UPCOMING EVENTS: http://holdenweb.eventbrite.com/ "All I want for my birthday is another birthday" - Ian Dury, 1942-2000 _______________________________________________ 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
