Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-27 Thread William Hubbs
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 05:27:46PM +, Jeremy Olexa wrote: On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:28:29 +, Alec Warner anta...@gentoo.org wrote: On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: As a user, I still think this could turn into a real mess. ??I think there will be

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-26 Thread Marijn Schouten (hkBst)
On Thursday 25 March 2010 20:05:17 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: 2010-03-25 19:34:24 Roy Bamford napisał(a): On 2010.03.24 21:12, William Hubbs wrote: The case where Python-3 cannot be used as the default Python is transitory (it may be a long time). Gentoo Python Project

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-26 Thread Pacho Ramos
El jue, 25-03-2010 a las 11:37 -0400, Richard Freeman escribió: On 03/24/2010 11:47 PM, Joshua Saddler wrote: Even then, it'll likely get installed first, as users will probably learn about p.masking it only *after* they install it. I don't have strong feelings on whether having v3

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-26 Thread Zac Medico
On 03/26/2010 02:02 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: El jue, 25-03-2010 a las 11:37 -0400, Richard Freeman escribió: On 03/24/2010 11:47 PM, Joshua Saddler wrote: Even then, it'll likely get installed first, as users will probably learn about p.masking it only *after* they install it. I don't have

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-26 Thread Zac Medico
On 03/26/2010 12:59 AM, Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote: On Thursday 25 March 2010 20:05:17 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: 2010-03-25 19:34:24 Roy Bamford napisał(a): On 2010.03.24 21:12, William Hubbs wrote: The case where Python-3 cannot be used as the default Python is

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-26 Thread Pacho Ramos
El vie, 26-03-2010 a las 05:10 -0700, Zac Medico escribió: Hello Maybe I have misunderstood anything (since I don't know much about python stuff) but, what would occur if I forget to mask python-3 and don't run python-updater. My plans would be to try to delay python-updater running

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-26 Thread Zac Medico
On 03/24/2010 08:47 PM, Joshua Saddler wrote: On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:12:55 -0500 William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 09:36:52PM +0100, Ben de Groot wrote: We agree that this is the minimum that should be done. But our Python lead stubbornly refuses to honor this

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-26 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis 2010-03-25 20:05:17 napisał(a): 2010-03-25 19:34:24 Roy Bamford napisał(a): The case where Python-3 cannot be used as the default Python is transitory (it may be a long time). Gentoo Python Project will soon start supporting setting Python 3 as main

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-26 Thread Brian Harring
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 05:35:19AM -0700, Zac Medico wrote: On 03/24/2010 08:47 PM, Joshua Saddler wrote: On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:12:55 -0500 William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 09:36:52PM +0100, Ben de Groot wrote: We agree that this is the minimum that

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-26 Thread Brian Harring
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 03:22:52PM +0100, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis 2010-03-25 20:05:17 napisał(a): 2010-03-25 19:34:24 Roy Bamford napisał(a): The case where Python-3 cannot be used as the default Python is transitory (it may be a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-26 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2010-03-26 16:40:37 Brian Harring napisał(a): There really isn't a precedent since upgrades of this sort typically either have extremely locked down deps, or just plain don't happen till the vast majority of depndencies are updated. If in doubt, look at the past python upgrades- they've

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-26 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2010-03-26 16:43:57 Brian Harring napisał(a): On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 03:22:52PM +0100, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis 2010-03-25 20:05:17 napisał(a): 2010-03-25 19:34:24 Roy Bamford napisał(a): The case where Python-3 cannot be used as

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-26 Thread Dale
Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: 2010-03-26 16:40:37 Brian Harring napisał(a): There really isn't a precedent since upgrades of this sort typically either have extremely locked down deps, or just plain don't happen till the vast majority of depndencies are updated. If in doubt,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-26 Thread Brian Harring
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 05:04:28PM +0100, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: 2010-03-26 16:43:57 Brian Harring napisał(a): On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 03:22:52PM +0100, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis 2010-03-25 20:05:17 napisał(a):

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-26 Thread Alec Warner
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: 2010-03-26 16:40:37 Brian Harring napisał(a): There really isn't a precedent since upgrades of this sort typically either have extremely locked down deps, or just plain don't happen

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-26 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2010-03-26 17:15:42 Brian Harring napisał(a): On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 05:04:28PM +0100, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: 2010-03-26 16:43:57 Brian Harring napisał(a): On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 03:22:52PM +0100, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: Arfrever Frehtes

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-26 Thread Jeremy Olexa
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:28:29 +, Alec Warner anta...@gentoo.org wrote: On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: As a user, I still think this could turn into a real mess.  I think there will be quite a few that will see python being updated, run python-updater and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-26 Thread Dale
Alec Warner wrote: On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: 2010-03-26 16:40:37 Brian Harring napisał(a): There really isn't a precedent since upgrades of this sort typically either have extremely locked

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-26 Thread George Prowse
On 26/03/2010 17:43, Dale wrote: It's not faith, its reality. There will be some people that don't subscribe to this list that will do what is above. This IS the reason I subscribed to this list. I wanted to know what the devs were doing under the hood that would lead me to screw up my system.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-26 Thread Dale
George Prowse wrote: On 26/03/2010 17:43, Dale wrote: It's not faith, its reality. There will be some people that don't subscribe to this list that will do what is above. This IS the reason I subscribed to this list. I wanted to know what the devs were doing under the hood that would lead me to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-25 Thread Richard Freeman
On 03/24/2010 11:47 PM, Joshua Saddler wrote: Even then, it'll likely get installed first, as users will probably learn about p.masking it only *after* they install it. I don't have strong feelings on whether having v3 installed by default is a big problem, but the last bit here probably

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-25 Thread Roy Bamford
On 2010.03.24 21:12, William Hubbs wrote: On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 09:36:52PM +0100, Ben de Groot wrote: On 24 March 2010 21:25, William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote: If we make it clear in the news item that python-3 cannot be used as the default python, so if users do not want it

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-25 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2010-03-25 19:34:24 Roy Bamford napisał(a): On 2010.03.24 21:12, William Hubbs wrote: On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 09:36:52PM +0100, Ben de Groot wrote: On 24 March 2010 21:25, William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote: If we make it clear in the news item that python-3 cannot be used as the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-24 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2010-03-23 20:28:38 Ben de Groot napisał(a): On 23 March 2010 20:13, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfre...@gentoo.org wrote: I'm attaching updated news item, which will be committed soon. As mentioned in the other thread, this news item should mention that users who do not need

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-24 Thread Ben de Groot
On 24 March 2010 17:43, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfre...@gentoo.org wrote: 2010-03-23 20:28:38 Ben de Groot napisał(a): On 23 March 2010 20:13, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfre...@gentoo.org wrote: I'm attaching updated news item, which will be committed soon. As

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-24 Thread Joshua Saddler
On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:43:56 +0100 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfre...@gentoo.org wrote: 2010-03-23 20:28:38 Ben de Groot napisał(a): As mentioned in the other thread, this news item should mention that users who do not need python-3 should mask it locally to prevent it from being

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-24 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2010-03-24 17:57:35 Joshua Saddler napisał(a): On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:43:56 +0100 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfre...@gentoo.org wrote: 2010-03-23 20:28:38 Ben de Groot napisał(a): As mentioned in the other thread, this news item should mention that users who do not need

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-24 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2010-03-24 17:56:48 Ben de Groot napisał(a): On 24 March 2010 17:43, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfre...@gentoo.org wrote: 2010-03-23 20:28:38 Ben de Groot napisał(a): On 23 March 2010 20:13, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfre...@gentoo.org wrote: I'm attaching updated

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-24 Thread Joshua Saddler
On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:14:44 +0100 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfre...@gentoo.org wrote: 2010-03-24 17:57:35 Joshua Saddler napisał(a): On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:43:56 +0100 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfre...@gentoo.org wrote: Python maintainers do not recommend to mask

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-24 Thread Ben de Groot
On 24 March 2010 18:23, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfre...@gentoo.org wrote: 2010-03-24 17:56:48 Ben de Groot napisał(a): On 24 March 2010 17:43, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfre...@gentoo.org wrote: 2010-03-23 20:28:38 Ben de Groot napisał(a): On 23 March 2010 20:13,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-24 Thread Alec Warner
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Joshua Saddler nightmo...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:14:44 +0100 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfre...@gentoo.org wrote: 2010-03-24 17:57:35 Joshua Saddler napisał(a): On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:43:56 +0100 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-24 Thread Alec Warner
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: On 24 March 2010 18:23, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfre...@gentoo.org wrote: 2010-03-24 17:56:48 Ben de Groot napisał(a): On 24 March 2010 17:43, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfre...@gentoo.org wrote:

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-24 Thread Doktor Notor
On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:35:21 +0100 Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: I'll take that as a yes then, you are indeed disregarding the concerns and recommendations of your fellow Gentoo developers. CC'ing devrel because this is getting out of hand. Looks like an extremely productive

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-24 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2010-03-24 18:32:37 Joshua Saddler napisał(a): On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:14:44 +0100 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfre...@gentoo.org wrote: 2010-03-24 17:57:35 Joshua Saddler napisał(a): On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:43:56 +0100 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfre...@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-24 Thread Jeremy Olexa
On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:32:37 -0700, Joshua Saddler nightmo...@gentoo.org wrote: But everyone else in Gentoo does, so . . . Some Gentoo developers/users, who aren't Python maintainers, said that they didn't object to have Python 3 installed. They're in the minority, judging by the replies

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-24 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 3/24/10 6:35 PM, Ben de Groot wrote: All valid concerns about text already included in the news item have been addressed. We don't need to include any unofficial recommendations. I'll take that as a yes then, you are indeed disregarding the concerns and recommendations of your fellow

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-24 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 24.03.2010 18:45, schrieb Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis: 2010-03-24 18:32:37 Joshua Saddler napisał(a): On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:14:44 +0100 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfre...@gentoo.org wrote: Some Gentoo developers/users, who aren't Python maintainers, said that they

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-24 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2010-03-24 18:51:48 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. napisał(a): On 3/24/10 6:35 PM, Ben de Groot wrote: All valid concerns about text already included in the news item have been addressed. We don't need to include any unofficial recommendations. I'll take that as a yes then, you are indeed

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-24 Thread William Hubbs
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 05:47:18PM +, Jeremy Olexa wrote: On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:32:37 -0700, Joshua Saddler nightmo...@gentoo.org wrote: But everyone else in Gentoo does, so . . . Really? I've seen a few people object, but not everyone in gentoo. Some Gentoo developers/users,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-24 Thread Joshua Saddler
On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:04:51 +0100 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfre...@gentoo.org wrote: People, don't want Python 3, probably have already masked it. There is no reason to waste Council's time for decision on what sentence should be included in the news item. Not the folks running

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-24 Thread Richard Freeman
On 03/24/2010 02:28 PM, Joshua Saddler wrote: On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:04:51 +0100 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesisarfre...@gentoo.org wrote: People, don't want Python 3, probably have already masked it. There is no reason to waste Council's time for decision on what sentence should be

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-24 Thread Ben de Groot
On 24 March 2010 19:41, Richard Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: On 03/24/2010 02:28 PM, Joshua Saddler wrote: On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:04:51 +0100 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesisarfre...@gentoo.org  wrote: People, don't want Python 3, probably have already masked it. There is no reason to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-24 Thread William Hubbs
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 02:41:28PM -0400, Richard Freeman wrote: On 03/24/2010 02:28 PM, Joshua Saddler wrote: On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:04:51 +0100 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesisarfre...@gentoo.org wrote: People, don't want Python 3, probably have already masked it. There is no reason

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-24 Thread Thomas Sachau
Am 24.03.2010 19:03, schrieb William Hubbs: On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 05:47:18PM +, Jeremy Olexa wrote: On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:32:37 -0700, Joshua Saddler nightmo...@gentoo.org wrote: But everyone else in Gentoo does, so . . . Really? I've seen a few people object, but not everyone in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-24 Thread William Hubbs
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 08:57:20PM +0100, Thomas Sachau wrote: Am 24.03.2010 19:03, schrieb William Hubbs: On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 05:47:18PM +, Jeremy Olexa wrote: On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:32:37 -0700, Joshua Saddler nightmo...@gentoo.org wrote: But everyone else in Gentoo does, so .

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-24 Thread Ben de Groot
On 24 March 2010 21:25, William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote: If we make it clear in the news item that python-3 cannot be used as the default python, so if users do not want it they should mask it, we have done our job imho.  In other words, this is just a matter of informing users. We

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-24 Thread William Hubbs
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 09:36:52PM +0100, Ben de Groot wrote: On 24 March 2010 21:25, William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote: If we make it clear in the news item that python-3 cannot be used as the default python, so if users do not want it they should mask it, we have done our job imho.  

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-24 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 09:36:52PM +0100, Ben de Groot wrote: On 24 March 2010 21:25, William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote: If we make it clear in the news item that python-3 cannot be used as the default python, so if users do not want it they should mask it, we have done our job imho.  

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-24 Thread Joshua Saddler
On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:12:55 -0500 William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 09:36:52PM +0100, Ben de Groot wrote: We agree that this is the minimum that should be done. But our Python lead stubbornly refuses to honor this reasonable request. On the other hand, I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-23 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2010-03-04 19:38:12 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. napisał(a): On 3/4/10 7:22 PM, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: 'eselect python COMMAND --python3 [ARGUMENTS]' can be used to manage configuration of active version of Python 3. I'm confused by the above paragraph. I had to spend a longer

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-23 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
I'm attaching updated news item, which will be committed soon. Stabilization has been delayed to 2010-04-21, but members of architecture projects can start testing now, to ensure that all potential problems have been found and fixed. -- Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis Title: Python 3.1

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-23 Thread Ben de Groot
On 23 March 2010 20:13, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfre...@gentoo.org wrote: I'm attaching updated news item, which will be committed soon. As mentioned in the other thread, this news item should mention that users who do not need python-3 should mask it locally to prevent it from

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-07 Thread Mark Loeser
Sebastian Pipping sp...@gentoo.org said: On 03/04/10 19:22, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: All problems, which were blocking stabilization of Python 3, have been fixed. Stabilization of Python 3.1.2 is currently scheduled on 2010-04-19. #python on Freenode still reads It's

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-07 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 03/07/2010 07:11 PM, Mark Loeser wrote: Sebastian Pipping sp...@gentoo.org said: On 03/04/10 19:22, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: All problems, which were blocking stabilization of Python 3, have been fixed. Stabilization of Python 3.1.2 is currently scheduled on 2010-04-19.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-07 Thread Petteri Räty
On 03/07/2010 07:11 PM, Mark Loeser wrote: Absolutely not. Its actually the opposite. Until 90+% of the tree just works with the new version of python, it should not be stabilized. The stable tree should all Just Work together. Stabilizing python-3 at this point would be the equivalent

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-07 Thread Petteri Räty
On 03/07/2010 07:32 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: +1 no need to stabilize experimental python, not even convinced it should be in ~arch yet (but package.masked for testing) I don't think upstream considers python 3 experimental so when it can be installed side by side with 2.6 so that

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-07 Thread Joshua Saddler
On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:26:24 +0200 Petteri Räty betelge...@gentoo.org wrote: On 03/07/2010 07:32 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: no need to stabilize experimental python, not even convinced it should be in ~arch yet (but package.masked for testing) I don't think upstream considers python 3

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-05 Thread Joshua Saddler
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 19:22:41 +0100 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfre...@gentoo.org wrote: Python 3 is a new major version of Python and is intentionally incompatible with Python 2. Many external modules have not been ported yet to Python 3, so currently Python 3.1 should not be set as

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-05 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 09:25, Joshua Saddler nightmo...@gentoo.org wrote: So . . . why the heck are you stabilizing it? Because 'stable' denotes that it works as intended, that it can be installed easily, etc. All of these are true now for python3. There are applications being written for it. We

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-05 Thread Joshua Saddler
On Fri, 5 Mar 2010 10:10:00 +0100 Dirkjan Ochtman d...@gentoo.org wrote: Because 'stable' denotes that it works as intended, that it can be installed easily, etc. All of these are true now for python3. There are applications being written for it. We want to package those too. I'm fine with

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-05 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 10:41, Joshua Saddler nightmo...@gentoo.org wrote: Python 3 is a new major version of Python and is intentionally incompatible with Python 2. Many external modules have not been ported yet to Python 3, so currently Python 3.1 should not be set as main active version of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-05 Thread Zac Medico
On 03/05/2010 01:41 AM, Joshua Saddler wrote: If it's stable, then users get it by default, assuming they run the stable tree. They install a recent stage3, build their system, run emerge -uD world. Bam, a useless version of Python is now installed. Nothing on their systems will use it, so

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-05 Thread Joshua Saddler
On Fri, 5 Mar 2010 10:56:23 +0100 Dirkjan Ochtman d...@gentoo.org wrote: No one has said yet why this is. So . . . direct question, gimme a direct answer: why? Because in my opinion stable means that the people who package this are stating that hey, we did some testing with this, it works

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-05 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:14, Joshua Saddler nightmo...@gentoo.org wrote: Aaaand none of my packages that are installed want to use it. That's what I'm sayin'. Maybe if I ran ~arch they'd ask for Python 3.x, but I run stable, so *nothing* wants to use it. Every other stable user is in the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-05 Thread Maciej Mrozowski
On Friday 05 of March 2010 11:22:18 Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: I *am* a stable user, and I do want to install python3 (without having to override keywords -- because my packager, the gentoo python team, says it works!). I recognize the cruft problem, but I don't think keeping things in unstable

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-05 Thread Zac Medico
On 03/05/2010 03:09 AM, Maciej Mrozowski wrote: Now on more serious note, ideally python could be treated just like any other non-leaf package (in dependency tree), just like library. In such case it's completely reasonable to stabilize the newest version of such 'library', especially when

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-05 Thread Ben de Groot
On 5 March 2010 12:24, Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote: It won't be pulled in by sys-apps/portage dependencies which look like this:  || ( dev-lang/python:2.8 dev-lang/python:2.7 dev-lang/python:2.6 =dev-lang/python-3 ) If you already have python:2.6 installed then it will not pull in a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-05 Thread Alistair Bush
On 5 March 2010 12:24, Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote: It won't be pulled in by sys-apps/portage dependencies which look like this: || ( dev-lang/python:2.8 dev-lang/python:2.7 dev-lang/python:2.6 =dev-lang/python-3 ) If you already have python:2.6 installed then it will

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-05 Thread Andy Kittner
On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 06:23:03AM +1300, Alistair Bush wrote: [...] Guys you should remember that we like to call gentoo a metadistribution [1]. Our users should be taking an active role in the maintenance of the own distro [...] As a user I have to thank you very much for this statement.

[gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-04 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
All problems, which were blocking stabilization of Python 3, have been fixed. Stabilization of Python 3.1.2 is currently scheduled on 2010-04-19. I'm attaching the news item for Python 3.1. -- Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis Title: Python 3.1 Author: Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-04 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 3/4/10 7:22 PM, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: Setting Python 3.1 as main active version of Python is currently unsupported. When it will change, a separate news item will be created to notify users. I'd suggest s/users/you 'eselect python COMMAND --python3 [ARGUMENTS]' can be

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-04 Thread Sebastian Pipping
On 03/04/10 19:22, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: All problems, which were blocking stabilization of Python 3, have been fixed. Stabilization of Python 3.1.2 is currently scheduled on 2010-04-19. #python on Freenode still reads It's too early to use Python 3.x. Are they wrong? Are

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-04 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 22:16, Sebastian Pipping sp...@gentoo.org wrote: Are we at a point already where we can feed 90% of the Python 2.x code out there to Python 3 without problems? No, and that point will never come, but this is not a problem right now. Python 3 will be installed slotted, as

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-04 Thread Ben de Groot
On 4 March 2010 22:16, Sebastian Pipping sp...@gentoo.org wrote: On 03/04/10 19:22, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: All problems, which were blocking stabilization of Python 3, have been fixed. Stabilization of Python 3.1.2 is currently scheduled on 2010-04-19. #python on Freenode