On 09/08/03 Andrew Farmer wrote: > It seems that Python 2.3's been out for a while now and there's still > no ebuild for it. Does this mean that some folks in the Gentoo > dungeons are still hacking on portage to make it work with 2.3, or > just that nobody's written an ebuild yet? Will anything horrible > happen if I just inject 2.3 by hand?
There is a bug for python-2.3 on bugs.gentoo.org, look there for the outstanding issues. Out of my head there only needs to be some decisions about compile options and some fixing of python scripts/modules, but I think Alastair can better comment on this. > Personally, I'm eagerly awaiting 2.3 in portage for: > - Sets > - Subclassable builtins (roll-your-own dictionaries) > - Improved runtime speed > though I'm not sure how much these improvements will help. I do some > python development myself, so I'd like to be able to make the upgrade, > if only for my own sake... Yep, it's also annoying if you code something and when you try it you notice it's only available in 2.3 (had this several times). Marius -- Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better.
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