On Apr 17, 12:27 pm, Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What's the big deal?
The big deal is that I would love to see Django become the standard platform for web development, for example. That will be much less likely if 60% of the contributed tools for Django don't work for Python 3000 and 20% don't work for Python 2.6. Expecting volunteer contributors to support both is not realistic. It's hard enough to support one adequately. Even if you could hope to support both with the same code, just testing in both environments would be onerous. It would be another matter entirely if py3k offered major new functionality like full stackless microthreads but it doesn't (afaik -- correct me please). >From my perspective it's just a pain in the @$$. By the way, full stackless microthreads don't seem to require breaking most (or any) existing code. I really like developing in Python -- but it's hard to keep doing it when the growth curve is so slow and a so many people have deep reservations about it, inspired in part, justifiably, by nonsense like this. In fact, I basically stopped. Then I came back. Now I'm wondering if it was such a good idea... -- Aaron Watters ==== http://www.xfeedme.com/nucular/pydistro.py/go?FREETEXT=stupid+bug -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list