I don't see the problem with Ubuntu 8.10 shipping only Python 2.6. Migrating to a newer Python version is not that easy, take a look how long it took Debian or Gentoo to switch their default version to 2.5. For 2.6 Ubuntu 9.04 will be early enough, I'm sure there won't be a switch to Python 3.0 before Ubuntu 9.10. Maybe even later, but that depends less on Ubuntu but rather on the adaptation rate of the community. The faster they are 3.0 compatible, the earlier Ubuntu can use 3.0 as default. Still, 2.x will be around for quite some years.
I tried building a python2.6 package from the python2.5 sources (updated via uupdate), but it fails quite early due to changes in the Makefile targets, due to the new documentation and the custom patches fail to apply. So it's a bit of work to get it to build properly. The only thing that is a bit of a pity is that the update-process was not started when the Python 2.6 alphas or betas came out (there was a Python 2.6 PPA of some alpha version by doko, but it was deleted). Then it would be easy to create PPAs immediately after the final release and/or upload them to Debian experimental (they are in freeze too). -- Python 2.6 for Intrepid https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/278230 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
