On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 09:57:30AM -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Jun 21, 2010, at 09:37 AM, Arc Riley wrote: > > >Also, under where it mentions that most OS's do not include Python 3, it > >should be noted which have good support for it. Gentoo (for example) has > >excellent support for Python 3, automatically installing Python packages > >which have Py3 support for both Py2 and Py3, and the python-based Portage > >package system runs cleanly on Py2.6, Py3.1 and Py3.2. > > We're trying to get there for Ubuntu (driven also by Debian). We have Python > 3.1.2 in main for Lucid, though we will probably not get 3.2 into Maverick > (the October 2010 release). We're currently concentrating on Python 2.7 as a > supported version because it'll be released by then, while 3.2 will still be > in beta. > > If you want to help, or have complaints, kudos, suggestions, etc. for Python > support on Ubuntu, you can contact me off-list. > <nod> Fedora 14 is about the same. A nice to have thing that goes along with these would be a table that has packages ported to python3 and which distributions have the python3 version of the package.
Once most of the important third party packages are ported to python3 and in the distributions, this table will likely become out-dated and probably should be reaped but right now it's a very useful thing to see. -Toshio
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