[gentoo-dev] Re: Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-21 Thread Duncan
Brian Harring posted on Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:17:35 -0700 as excerpted: Basically what gain is there? Stabilizing it at this point comes off as whee, we have py3k stabilized! Now go mask it on all of your boxes since not a lot of the useful things play nice with it right now! I'm on ~arch, so

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-20 Thread Francesco R
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 2:42 AM, Alistair Bush ali_b...@gentoo.org wrote: Someone here want people install paludis? because when I've switched to python 3.0 just out of curiosity, it broke totally that python written package manager who is portage. So another package manager was needed

[gentoo-dev] Re: Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/19/2009 08:21 PM, Dale wrote: Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 19:06, Alex Leglera...@gentoo.org wrote: What is the point of stabilizing it if users shouldn't use it as main interpreter? Just leave it in ~arch until it can be safely used. Making it easily available so

[gentoo-dev] Re: Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-19 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:35:08 -0400 Mark Loeser halc...@gentoo.org wrote: Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfre...@gentoo.org said: Stabilization of Python 3.1.* will be requested at the beginning of november. There was a suggestion to create a news item which would inform users that

[gentoo-dev] Re: Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-19 Thread Mark Bateman
AllenJB gentoo-lists at allenjb.me.uk writes: As a user who has spent a lot of time on IRC and the forums supporting other users, I think I can safely say that stabilizing a version of python which is not supported by portage will end up in a nightmare scenario. At the very least portage,

[gentoo-dev] Re: Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-19 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 08:55:00 +1200 Alistair Bush ali_b...@gentoo.org wrote: Stabilization of Python 3.1.* will be requested at the beginning of november. There was a suggestion to create a news item which would inform users that temporarily they shouldn't switch to Python 3 as their main

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-19 Thread Francesco R
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 1:31 AM, Ryan Hill dirtye...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 08:55:00 +1200 Alistair Bush ali_b...@gentoo.org wrote: Stabilization of Python 3.1.* will be requested at the beginning of november. There was a suggestion to create a news item which would

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-19 Thread Alistair Bush
Someone here want people install paludis? because when I've switched to python 3.0 just out of curiosity, it broke totally that python written package manager who is portage. So another package manager was needed to re-install a sane portage. No it wasn't. [1] You just didn't know that (