[Python-Dev] #Python3 ! ? (was Python Library Support in 3.x)

[Laurens Van Houtven]

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com> wrote:
> <nod> Fedora 14 is about the same.  A nice to have thing that goes along
> with these would be a table that has packages ported to python3 and which
> distributions have the python3 version of the package.

Yeah, this is exactly why I'd prefer to not have to maintain a
specific list. Big distros are making Python 3.x available, it's not
the default interpreter yet anywhere (AFAIK?), but that's going to
happen in the next few releases of said distributions.

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Arc Riley <arcriley at gmail.com> wrote:
> Personally, I'd like to celebrate the upcoming Python 3.2 release (which
> will hopefully include 3to2) with moving all packages which do not have the
> 'Programming Language :: Python :: 3' classifier to a "Legacy" section of
> PyPI and offer only Python 3 packages otherwise.  Of course put a banner at
> the top clearly explaining that Python 2 packages can be found in the Legacy
> section.
>
> Radical, I know, but at some point we really need to make this move.

I agree we have to make it at some point but I feel this is way, way too early.

thanks for your continued input,
Laurens