Dirkjan Ochtman writes: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 17:41, Stephen J. Turnbull <step...@xemacs.org> > wrote: > > 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.) > > Problems like what?
Like those I explained later in the post, which you cut. But I'll repeat. Some ebuilds are not prepared for Python 3, so must be emerged with a Python 2 eselected (and sometimes they need a specific Python 2). Some which are prepared don't get linted often enough, so new ebuilds are DOA because of an accented character in a changelog triggering a Unicode exception or similar dumb things like that. > > I don't have any connections to the distros, so can't really offer to > > help directly. I think it might be a good idea for users to lobby > > (politely!) their distros to work on the transition. > > Please create a connection to your distro by filing bugs as you > encounter them? No, thank you. File bugs, maybe, although most of the bugs I encounter in Gentoo are already in the database (often with multiple regressions going back a year or more), I could do a little more of that. (Response in the past has not been encouraging.) But I don't have time for distro politics. Is lack of Python 3-readiness considered a bug by Gentoo? _______________________________________________ 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
