On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Stefan Behnel <stefan...@behnel.de> wrote: > Maciej Fijalkowski, 07.04.2013 10:12: >> On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 9:51 AM, <martin...@v.loewis.de> wrote: >>> Quoting Lennart Regebro: >>>> On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 7:11 AM, <martin...@v.loewis.de> wrote: >>>>> Wrt. to the 3.x migration rate: I think this is a self-fulfilling >>>>> prophecy. Migration rate will certainly increase once we announce >>>>> an end of 2.7, and then again when the end is actually reached. >>>> >>>> Well... People are in general *stuck* on Python 2. They are not >>>> staying because they want to. So I'm not so sure migration rate will >>>> increase because an end is announced or reached. >>> >>> I assume you say that because people rely on libraries that haven't >>> been ported (correct me if there are other reasons to be stuck). >> >> I'm stuck because I can't tell my users "oh, we didn't improve pypy >> for the last year/6 months/3 months, because we were busy upgrading >> sources you'll never see to python 3" > > Why not? It's not like many people *see* PyPy's sources ever in their life, > but my guess is that most of your users will eventually end up *using* > those upgraded sources anyway. So those upgrades will also be an > improvement for most of them. > > Stefan
Some of them, maybe. Most people absolutely don't care. Most of my users are people who want this 10% speed improvement rather than sources upgraded to a different, supposedly better, language. Cheers, fijal _______________________________________________ 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