[Python-Dev] Fixing the GIL (with a BFS scheduler)

[Terry Reedy]

On 5/17/2010 2:59 PM, Bill Janssen wrote:
> Yes, it would.  As soon as I have working 3.x versions of BeautifulSoup,
> PIL, ReportLab, JCC, pylucene, pyglet, nltk, email, epydoc, feedparser,
> dictclient, docutils, hachoir, mutagen, medusa, python-dateutil, and
> vobject, I'll let you know. :-)
>
>> There /has/ been momentum in fixing it. In py3k.
>
> Yes, I specifically meant in the 2.x branch.  I'm guessing I'll have to
> stay on 2.x for at least 5 more years, due to the other package
> dependencies.

I suspect it will be sooner than that, especially if users like you 
ask/beg/plead with the maintainers of libraries like those you listed to 
make them work with 3.2. Give your particular reason, that Python3 will 
work increasingly well with multicore machines. I an sure a couple of 
such people have posted that they see no reason to upgrade until users 
start requesting them to.

Terry Jan Reedy