On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Max Countryman <m...@me.com> wrote:
> First, thank you for the link, it's good to read a more fleshed out 
> perspective.
>
>> Of course, your own python scripts will need to point at /usr/bin/python2. 
>> However, by doing this you may run into portability issues across distros. 
>> There does not appear to be an easy solution for that at the moment. It 
>> seems that while most (all?) distributions include a /usr/bin/python3 link 
>> to their python3.xbinary, none do the same thing for python2.x. Either 
>> create your own symlink in your path for those distros or even better file a 
>> bug with them asking for such a symlink. They are going to need one in the 
>> future…
>
> This definitely complicates development. While I appreciate being on the 
> bleeding edge, in some cases it may not always be desirable.

in most cases you can probably do whats needed to get <insert here> to
just use python2 instead.  i'm a developer by profession... and this
whole thing is pretty disruptive to meh w3rk flow... but hey, we
wouldn't be here if we didn't expect these things, right? :-)

> Is Python 3 truly ready for primetime? I have read that some libraries are 
> not yet ported and that Python 3 is not yet recommended for development 
> purposes.

AFAIK, py3k is the _only_ thing recommended for new development.  the
2.x series is frozen; 3.x is the clear path forward... we've all known
this for some time, and some of us procrastinated :-) [me].  the
current version is 3.1.2... i think it's past the .0 bugs; sluggish
libraries have little to do with the interpreter itself.

> I'm still not really clear on the rationale for the timing; to put it in 
> testing makes complete sense. The migration from testing is my only concern
>
> Lastly, let me also add that the rebuild is very impressive. Congratulations 
> and thank you for your wonderful efforts!

as annoying as this whole thing is to my projects, i understand and
support the decision 100%.  sooner is always better than later... when
our stuff is solid again, other distro's will be dealing with the same
thing.  it's inevitable, Smith.

C Anthony

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