[gentoo-user] Re: Why exactly am I supposed to install Python 3?

2009-12-08 Thread Remy Blank
Alan McKinnon wrote: Agreed. The elog message strikes me as merely an enthusiastic endorsement of cool shiny new stuff from an over-zealous maintainer who doesn't quite grasp how slow traction can be in the real world While that may be true, and even though he did make a few mistakes in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why exactly am I supposed to install Python 3?

2009-12-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:02:47 +0100, Remy Blank wrote: So, going back to the initial question, you could just emerge Python 3.1, enable it in USE_PYTHON in make.conf, but leave 2.6 as a default. Where is USE_PYTHON documented? I see no mention of it in man make.conf, make.conf.example or the

[gentoo-user] Re: Why exactly am I supposed to install Python 3?

2009-12-08 Thread Remy Blank
Neil Bothwick wrote: Where is USE_PYTHON documented? I see no mention of it in man make.conf, make.conf.example or the portage elogs. In /usr/portage/eclass/python.eclass ;-) To be honest, I wanted that feature so badly that I dug through python.eclass as soon as I saw arfrever mention it.

[gentoo-user] Re: Why exactly am I supposed to install Python 3?

2009-12-07 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-12-07, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 07 December 2009 22:24:14 Grant Edwards wrote: My most recent update displayed the following messages from Python 2.6.4 and Python 2.4.6: It is highly recommended to additionally install Python 3, Why is it highly

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why exactly am I supposed to install Python 3?

2009-12-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 08 December 2009 00:41:57 Grant Edwards wrote: Quoting from the page on Python 2.7 (released today): Python 2.7 is scheduled to be the last major version in the 2.x series before it moves into 5 years of bugfix-only mode. So there's at least 5 years of life left in the 2.x