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
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 2:42 AM, Alistair Bush 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 to re-inst
>
> 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
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 1:31 AM, Ryan Hill wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 08:55:00 +1200
> Alistair Bush 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 temporari
On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 08:55:00 +1200
Alistair Bush 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
> > interpret
AllenJB 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, python-upda
On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:35:08 -0400
Mark Loeser wrote:
> Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis 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 s
On 09/19/2009 08:21 PM, Dale wrote:
Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 19:06, Alex Legler 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
