On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:09:38 +0200, Dirkjan Ochtman <d...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 19:06, Alex Legler <a...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > What is the point of stabilizing it if users shouldn't use it as > > main interpreter? Just leave it in ~arch until it can be safely > > used. > > Making it easily available so that people can port stuff, so that the > entire world may be able to use it as their main interpreter sooner? > Don't you think that ~arch makes it easily available enough for people who *want* to port stuff? If I run stable Gentoo, I'm interested in a /stable/ system(tm) and not the latest Python version that people are still fiddling with. Especially since the Gentoo core system extensively uses Python. By the way, does Portage work with Python 3 yet? > Seriously, it's out there, there's no reason to keep it from stable. > Just prevent people from making python invoke 3.x and everything will > be fine. > Yeah, right, let's install it on all those stable machines, but then not use it. Way to go! Alex
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