On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 22:03, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 01:47 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> >>> In spite of Python being a programming language, there is a difference >>> between 'casual user of the language' and 'library developer'; 3.0 is >>> certainly a must for all actual library developers, and I'm sure most of >>> them know about 3.0 by now. We're talking about first impressions for >>> people >>> without that knowledge. >> >> Well if most library developers already know 3.0 by now, I would hope >> they aren't going to sit on their hands, and solve the issues at hand! > > The best thing for 3.0 adoption would be a 3.0 "welcoming committee". A > group of hackers wandering from one popular open source library to another, > writing patches for 3.x compatibility issues. There must be lots of people > who care about 3.x adoption, and this is probably the most effective way > they can reach that goal. >
The welcoming committee has somewhat already started. Martin announced on python-porting that he ported psycopg2 himself and submitted the patch. Martin also mostly ported Django at the last PyCon. -Brett _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
