On Oct 03, 2012, at 11:22 AM, R. David Murray wrote: >I don't have any data to back this up, but it is my impression that more >distributions are providing access to alpha releases in their "testing" >package trees.
Ubuntu and Debian generally does, thanks to Matthias's great work. Python 3.3's been available (though obviously not the default) in Ubuntu 12.10 for a while now, and in Debian experimental, and we have started to get package build failure reports related to it: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=debian-pyt...@lists.debian.org;tag=python3.3 It's not that much yet though, and I'm not sure if having the alphas available really helps with that, but it *is* nice to be able to make alphas available to our users via experimental, PPAs, etc. so that folks can play with it much more easily. >As Python continues to grow in importance[1], the number of people >interacting with Python on the distribution development teams[2] increases, >and therefor the number of people likely to run alphas for testing increases. >So even if Larry were right *now*, he isn't right for the future, and we >should do all we can to nurture an increasing culture of alpha-testing. Definitely. >[1] in case anyone hasn't noticed, we *are* a growing community, regardless > of where various analytics put us relative to other languages :) Which is *fantastic*! Cheers, -Barry _______________________________________________ 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
