On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 03:42, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > 5. The parallel evolution of the 2.x and 3.x line meant that the first > version of 2.x with the relevant warning was released only ~7 months > or so before the version of 3.2 where the API was removed
An additional issue that makes it particularly problematic for me is that this is a part of moving a whole framework, the Zope Component Architecture And Friends (aka the Bicycle toolkit) that contains a lot of hard to port projects like zope.testing and zc.buildout. This means that it's so far take three years of porting (starting with efforts to port Setuptools in 2008) and isn't done yet. It's extremely frustrating that in the middle of this porting effort the target changes, so things I *thought* was done and ported, are now suddenly not done anymore. It becomes a sisyphean task to port to Python 3, and I don't fancy myself ending up in such a boring part of hell. :-) If I had instead ignored Python 3 completely until this year, then I this wouldn't have been a problem. As a result it feels like early porters like me just got our fingers whacked. But it all comes down to what Guido mentioned in his fie-side chat (at least how I understood him): The pace of change for Python needs to slow down a bit, at least until the migration to Python 3 both for Python implementations and general use has been completed. //Lennart _______________________________________________ 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
