[Python-Dev] Python Library Support in 3.x (Was: email package status in 3.X)

[Georg Brandl]

Am 19.06.2010 15:09, schrieb Arc Riley:
> Just because legacy Python needs to be kept around for a bit longer for
> a few uses does not mean that "Python 3 is not ready yet".  Any decent
> package system can have two or more versions of Python installed at the
> same time.
> 
> It is not "critical self-evaluation" to repeat "Python 3 is not ready"
> as litany in #Python and your supporting website.  I use the word
> "litany" here because #Python refers users to what appears to be a
> religious website http://python-commandments.org/python3.html
> 
> I have further witnessed (and even been the other party to) you and
> other ops in #Python telling package developers, who have clearly said
> that they are working to port their legacy package to Py3, that "Python
> 3 is not ready".  One of our Summer of Code students this year actually
> included in his application that he was told (strongly) in #Python that
> he shouldn't be working with Py3 - even after he expressed his intent to
> apply under the PSF to help with the Py3 migration effort as his project.

Ouch.  Looks like it's time for the PSU to release the 10-ton wei