[Python-Dev] (Not) delaying the 3.2 release

[Terry Reedy]

On 9/16/2010 3:07 PM, Jacob Kaplan-Moss wrote:

>> On 16 September 2010 07:16, Terry Reedy<tjreedy at udel.edu>  wrote:
>>>> I'm not working to get Django running on Python 3.1 because I don't
>>>> feel confident I'll be able to put any apps I write into production.
>>>
>>> Why not? Since the I/O speed problem is fixed, I have no idea what you are
>>> referring to.  Please do be concrete.

> Deploying web apps under Python 2 right now is actually pretty
> awesome. ...

And will remain so for years.

> The key here is that switching between all of these deployment
> situations is *incredibly* easy. ...

> Python 3 offers me none of this. I don't have a wide variety of tools
> to choose from. Worse, I don't even have a guarantee of
> interoperability between the tools that *do* exist.

That last needs an updated standard, which may require a bit of nudging 
to get agreement on *something*, along with an updated reference 
implementation. I would expect a usable variety of production 
implementations to gradually follow thereafter, as they have for 2.x.

> I'm sorry if I'm coming across as a complainer here.

No. You answered my question quite well.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy