[issue8127] Add link to PortingPythonToPy3k to What's New documentation

[Martin v. Löwis]

Martin v. Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de> added the comment:

Andrew McNabb wrote:
> Andrew McNabb <amcnabb at mcnabbs.org> added the comment:
> 
> By the way, I just noticed your notes on the wiki page and added a
> response/question.  It seems that the advice that you consider bad is
> the official porting story (upgrade to 2.6 and use 2to3).

No, "drop support for Python older than 2.6" is completely, entirely
different from "upgrade to 2.6".

> I agree
> that it's easier and better to not drop support for 2.4 and 2.5, but
> this seems to be officially discouraged.

Says who?

> In any case, most of the current content on the wiki page is about
> supporting Python 2 and Python 3 simultaneously.  I think this is
> actually better than the official documentation.

If, by "official documentation", you refer to the 3 paragraphs in
"what's new", then I agree that the text could be improved. However,
I completely disagree that your Wiki page is better wrt. to running code
 simultaneously on 2.x and 3.x unmodified.

Your page encourages such a style, and "what's new" discourages,
pointing out that it leads to contorted code. I completely agree that it
does, and the approaches proposed should be the absolute exception in
any porting strategy.

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