On Tue, 2011-11-22 at 09:13 -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 01:41:46AM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > > Barry Warsaw writes: > > > > > Hopefully, we're going to be making a dent in that in the next version of > > > Ubuntu. > > > > This is still a big mess in Gentoo and MacPorts, though. MacPorts > > hasn't done anything about ceating a transition infrastructure AFAICT. > > Gentoo has its "eselect python set VERSION" stuff, but it's very > > dangerous to set to a Python 3 version, as many things go permanently > > wonky once you do. (So far I've been able to work around problems > > this creates, but it's not much fun.) I have no experience with this > > in Debian, Red Hat (and derivatives) or *BSD, but I have to suspect > > they're no better. (Well, maybe Red Hat has learned from its 1.5.2 > > experience! :-) > > > For Fedora (and currently, Red Hat is based on Fedora -- a little more about > that later, though), we have parallel python2 and python3 stacks. As time > goes on we've slowly brought more python-3 compatible modules onto the > python3 stack (I believe someone had the goal a year and a half ago to get > a complete pylons web development stack running on python3 on Fedora which > brought a lot of packages forward).
FWIW, current status of Fedora's Python 3 stack can be seen here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Python3 and that page may be of interest to other distributions - I know of at least one other distribution that's screen-scraping it ;) _______________________________________________ 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
