Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-10-08 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2009-09-20 20:46:17 Nirbheek Chauhan napisał(a): On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 11:57 PM, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfre...@gentoo.org wrote: There is a difference between Python scripts and Python modules. Yes, I'm well aware of the difference between them. [snip] Python modules

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-20 Thread Petteri Räty
Alex Alexander wrote: *On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 23:21, Robert Bridge rob...@robbieab.com wrote: So the question isn't SHOULD python-3 be stabilised, it's what will break if it is surely? There seems to be a misunderstanding on what will happen if/when python 3 gets stabilized. The short

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-20 Thread Richard Freeman
Olivier Crête wrote: ~arch is for testing ebuilds, not the upstream package I'm pretty sure this isn't the case - at least not as cleanly as you suggest. Certainly testing the ebuilds themselves is part of the reason for having ~arch, but upstream readiness is part of it as well. If a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-20 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:09:38 +0200, Dirkjan Ochtman d...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 19:06, Alex Legler a...@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

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-20 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:51:17 +0200, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfrever@gmail.com wrote: 2009-09-19 20:22:49 Tobias Klausmann napisał(a): Hi! Aside from the remarks made by others (and speaking as someone who maintains Python software), there is one reason for me to not switch

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-20 Thread Jesús Guerrero
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] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-20 Thread Dale
Richard Freeman wrote: Olivier Crête wrote: ~arch is for testing ebuilds, not the upstream package I'm pretty sure this isn't the case - at least not as cleanly as you suggest. Certainly testing the ebuilds themselves is part of the reason for having ~arch, but upstream readiness is part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-20 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:41:32 +0200, Dawid Węgliński c...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sunday 20 of September 2009 00:32:28 Dale wrote: ~arch is for testing ebuilds, not the upstream package So it would be OK to mark something stable even tho portage itself doesn't work with it? Sorry, this makes

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-20 Thread Dale
Jesús Guerrero wrote: On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:41:32 +0200, Dawid Węgliński c...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sunday 20 of September 2009 00:32:28 Dale wrote: ~arch is for testing ebuilds, not the upstream package So it would be OK to mark something stable even tho portage itself

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-20 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2009-09-20 16:53:37 Jesús Guerrero napisał(a): On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:41:32 +0200, Dawid Węgliński c...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sunday 20 of September 2009 00:32:28 Dale wrote: ~arch is for testing ebuilds, not the upstream package So it would be OK to mark something stable even tho

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-20 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:24:53 +0200, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfre...@gentoo.org wrote: 2009-09-20 16:53:37 Jesús Guerrero napisał(a): On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:41:32 +0200, Dawid Węgliński c...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sunday 20 of September 2009 00:32:28 Dale wrote: ~arch is for

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-20 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfre...@gentoo.org wrote: Some packages (whose older versions might be stable) might soon start requiring Python 3. Stabilization of these packages cannot be delayed due to the fact that some other packages don't work with

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-20 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2009-09-20 17:56:46 Nirbheek Chauhan napisał(a): On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfre...@gentoo.org wrote: Some packages (whose older versions might be stable) might soon start requiring Python 3. Stabilization of these packages cannot be delayed due

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-20 Thread Robert Buchholz
On Sunday 20 September 2009, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: Some packages (whose older versions might be stable) might soon start requiring Python 3. Stabilization of these packages cannot be delayed due to the fact that some other packages don't work with Python 3. Of course they

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-20 Thread Petteri Räty
Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: 2009-09-20 16:44:09 Jesús Guerrero napisał(a): On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:09:38 +0200, Dirkjan Ochtman d...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 19:06, Alex Legler a...@gentoo.org wrote: What is the point of stabilizing it if users shouldn't use it

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-20 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2009-09-20 18:51:53 Robert Buchholz napisał(a): On Sunday 20 September 2009, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: Some packages (whose older versions might be stable) might soon start requiring Python 3. Stabilization of these packages cannot be delayed due to the fact that some other

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-20 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 9:37 PM, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfre...@gentoo.org wrote: which depend on Python 3) wouldn't break any packages and wouldn't require to switch main Python interpreter to Python 3. Package X (stable) requires python-2 Package Y (stable) requires python-3 =

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-20 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfre...@gentoo.org wrote: 2009-09-20 16:53:37 Jesús Guerrero napisał(a): # eselect python set 2 # emerge -s foo   File /usr/bin/emerge, line 41     except PermissionDenied, e:                            ^ SyntaxError:

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-20 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2009-09-20 19:25:55 Nirbheek Chauhan napisał(a): On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 9:37 PM, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfre...@gentoo.org wrote: which depend on Python 3) wouldn't break any packages and wouldn't require to switch main Python interpreter to Python 3. Package X (stable)

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-20 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfre...@gentoo.org wrote: Package X (stable) requires python-2 Package Y (stable) requires python-3 = User can't use both at the same time. Distribute/Setuptools will ensure that appropriate shebang is present in Python

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-20 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2009-09-20 19:30:54 Nirbheek Chauhan napisał(a): On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfre...@gentoo.org wrote: 2009-09-20 16:53:37 Jesús Guerrero napisał(a): # eselect python set 2 # emerge -s foo File /usr/bin/emerge, line 41 except

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-20 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2009-09-20 19:47:28 Nirbheek Chauhan napisał(a): On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfre...@gentoo.org wrote: Package X (stable) requires python-2 Package Y (stable) requires python-3 = User can't use both at the same time. Distribute/Setuptools

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-20 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 11:57 PM, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfre...@gentoo.org wrote: There is a difference between Python scripts and Python modules. Yes, I'm well aware of the difference between them. [snip] Python modules shouldn't have shebang. Python modules are intended to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-20 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2009-09-20 20:46:17 Nirbheek Chauhan napisał(a): On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 11:57 PM, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfre...@gentoo.org wrote: There is a difference between Python scripts and Python modules. Yes, I'm well aware of the difference between them. [snip] Python modules

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-20 Thread Zac Medico
Petteri Räty wrote: Every Gentoo system where world or system includes deps like =dev-lang/python-2.5 will get it installed because in this case Portage will automatically update to the latest slot at least according to my quick research. I don't like putting stuff to users systems that they

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-20 Thread Mark Loeser
Dawid Węgliński c...@gentoo.org said: You mix it up. Portage works with python 3.1. If an user switches to python 3.1 as the main interpreter, it's possible that his own scripts won't work. Marking it stable sometine in november give's some time to ebuilds maintainers to fix their python

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-20 Thread Mark Loeser
Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfre...@gentoo.org said: I agree. But Python 3.1 doesn't have more issues than Python 2.6, so the stabilization is reasonable. And how about all of the packages in the tree that use python? You are missing that huge part. That's like saying libfoo works

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-20 Thread Dale
Mark Loeser wrote: Dawid Węgliński c...@gentoo.org said: You mix it up. Portage works with python 3.1. If an user switches to python 3.1 as the main interpreter, it's possible that his own scripts won't work. Marking it stable sometine in november give's some time to ebuilds

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-20 Thread Brian Harring
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 06:20:41PM -0400, Mark Loeser wrote: Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfre...@gentoo.org said: I agree. But Python 3.1 doesn't have more issues than Python 2.6, so the stabilization is reasonable. And how about all of the packages in the tree that use python?

[gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-19 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
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 interpreter. Python ebuilds don't automatically activate Python 3, so I'm not sure if

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-19 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 18:48, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfre...@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

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-19 Thread Alex Legler
On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 18:48:27 +0200, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfre...@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

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-19 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 19:06, Alex Legler a...@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 that people can port stuff, so that the entire world may be able

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-19 Thread Dale
Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 19:06, Alex Legler a...@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 that people can port stuff,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-19 Thread Alex Legler
On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:09:38 +0200, Dirkjan Ochtman d...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 19:06, Alex Legler a...@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

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-19 Thread Olivier Crête
On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 12:21 -0500, Dale wrote: Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 19:06, Alex Legler a...@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.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-19 Thread AllenJB
Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 19:06, Alex Legler a...@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 that people can port stuff, so that

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-19 Thread Tobias Klausmann
Hi! Aside from the remarks made by others (and speaking as someone who maintains Python software), there is one reason for me to not switch Python 3 to stable yet: lack of compatibility. Software that runs with 3.x will not run with any 2.x version as of today (and I doubt there will ever be a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-19 Thread AllenJB
Alex Legler wrote: On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:09:38 +0200, Dirkjan Ochtman d...@gentoo.org wrote: Seriously, it's out there, there's no reason to keep it from stable. Just prevent people from making python invoke 3.x and everything will be fine. Yeah, right, let's install it on all those

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-19 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 10:18 PM, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfre...@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

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-19 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2009-09-19 20:22:49 Tobias Klausmann napisał(a): Hi! Aside from the remarks made by others (and speaking as someone who maintains Python software), there is one reason for me to not switch Python 3 to stable yet: lack of compatibility. Software that runs with 3.x will not run with any 2.x

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-19 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2009-09-19 20:45:45 Nirbheek Chauhan napisał(a): On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 10:18 PM, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfre...@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

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-19 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2009-09-19 20:20:10 AllenJB napisał(a): Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 19:06, Alex Legler a...@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

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-19 Thread Mark Loeser
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 temporarily they shouldn't switch to Python 3 as their main interpreter. Python

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-19 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfre...@gentoo.org wrote: Have any other distribution moved to purely using python-3.1? We won't move to purely using Python 3.1. Both Python 2 and 3 will be used. Let me modify me question: Has any other distribution

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-19 Thread Petteri Räty
Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: 2009-09-19 20:20:10 AllenJB napisał(a): Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 19:06, Alex Legler a...@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

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-19 Thread Robert Bridge
Speaking as a user, I seem to recall having multiple versions of python installed in the past, and never really knowing or caring which version was being used so long as stuff worked. If you want to install python-3.14159 in the stable tree, than go right ahead, so long as anything that doesn't

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-19 Thread Alistair Bush
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 interpreter. Python ebuilds don't automatically activate Python 3, so I'm

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-19 Thread Dale
Olivier Crête wrote: On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 12:21 -0500, Dale wrote: Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 19:06, Alex Legler a...@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

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-19 Thread Dawid Węgliński
On Sunday 20 of September 2009 00:32:28 Dale wrote: ~arch is for testing ebuilds, not the upstream package So it would be OK to mark something stable even tho portage itself doesn't work with it? Sorry, this makes no sense to me. I run stable for the most part and having a package that

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-19 Thread Alex Alexander
*On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 23:21, Robert Bridge rob...@robbieab.com wrote: So the question isn't SHOULD python-3 be stabilised, it's what will break if it is surely? There seems to be a misunderstanding on what will happen if/when python 3 gets stabilized. The short answer is... *drum roll*...