Dirkjan Ochtman writes: > I'm sorry for the lack of response in the past. I looked at Gentoo's > Bugzilla and didn't find any related bugs you reported or were CC'ed > on, can you name some of them?
This isn't about my bugs; I've been able to work through them satisfactorily. It's about what I perceive as a need for simultaneous improvement in Python 3 support across several distros, covering enough users to establish momentum. I don't think Python 3 needs to (or even can) replace Python 2 as the system python in the near future. But the "python" that is visible to users (at least on single-user systems) should be choosable by the user. eselect (on Gentoo) and port select (on MacPorts) *appear* to provide this, but it doesn't work very well. > > Is lack of Python 3-readiness considered a bug by Gentoo? > > Definitely. Again, we are trying to hard to make things better, but > there's a lot to do and going through version bumps sometimes wins out > over addressing the hard problems. Well, as I see it the two hard problems are (1) the stack-per-python- minor-version solution is ugly and unattractive to users, and (2) the "select python" utility needs to be safe. This probably means that python-using ebuilds need to complain if the Python they find isn't a Python 2 version by default. _______________________________________________ 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
