[Catalog-sig] "python 2 only" classifier

[Michael Foord]

On 13 December 2011 13:24, Yuval Greenfield <ubershmekel at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Michael Foord <fuzzyman at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 13 December 2011 10:29, Yuval Greenfield <ubershmekel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> Toshio Kuratomi is correct:
> >> > Additionally, I'm not certain of the use case cited.  Isn't the
> utility
> >> > of
> >> > a site like http://python3wos.appspot.com/ in seeing which popular or
> >> > widely depended upon packages have no python3 version?  With that in
> >> > mind,
> >> > the listing on that page wouldn't seem to depend on whether a
> package's
> >> > author intends to port to python3.
> >>
> >
> > unittest2 has a Python 3 port: unittest2py3k
> >
> > docutils is also Python 3 compatible (since version 0.6), even if they're
> > not using the trove classifier.
> >
>
> My initial response was to remove modules that had python 3
> equivalents on the wall. This makes sense for eg setuptools and jinja
> as it wouldn't be accurate to give them a double green listing and
> skew the percentage.
>
> Packages that have a single listing on the top 200 and have a python 3
> equivalent I should mark as green. I guess the best solution would be
> to consolidate these packages. I'll work on it.
>
> Concerning docutils, I sent an email to Lea Wiemann
> (LeWiemann at gmail.com) and am cc-ing David Goodger for the trove
> classifier though I don't think I can be held responsible for this
> one.
>


What do you mean by held responsible? If a package is Python 3 compatible,
or has a Python 3 version/port/alternative distribution, shouldn't "wall of
shame" (I *really* dislike the name for what it's worth and cringe every
time I write it) reflect the truth?

All the best,

Michael


>
>
> Yuval Greenfield
>



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