[Catalog-sig] "python 2 only" classifier

[Michael Foord]

On 13 December 2011 14:36, David Goodger <goodger at python.org> wrote:

> Sorry, I have no idea what this message is about.
> Some context/explanation please?
> What action are you asking for?
>


docutils supports Python 3 (according to the project website), but does not
use the Python 3 trove classifier on PyPI. That means it incorrectly shows
up as not supporting Python 3 on the "wall of shame" website.

http://python3wos.appspot.com/

All the best,

Michael Foord



>
> Note that Lea Wiemann is no longer active in the Docutils project.
>
> -- David Goodger
>
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 08:24, 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.
> >
> >
> > Yuval Greenfield
>



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