[BangPypers] Python moratorium
Shashwat Anand
anand.shashwat at gmail.com
Fri Nov 13 23:21:50 CET 2009
Python widespread adoption is better idea. It's good to have a newer version
arrive after a gap, so we can play catchup game. I hadn't still migrated to
3 though, still stuck with 2.6.2. The reason is same as everyone else.
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Anand Balachandran Pillai
> <abpillai at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Anand Balachandran Pillai
> >> <abpillai at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > A.M. Kuchling has published an article related to this on LWN.
> >> > This has been under discussion in Pydev for a couple of weeks now...
> >> >
> >> > It would be interesting to know the opinion of folks here on
> this...[..]
> >>
> >> I've been following the discussion. I think it's eminently sensible.
> >>
> >
> > I also thought so. More than the catching up part, I think perhaps
> > Guido is worried about widespread Python 3.x adoption. This will
> > help a lot in that direction.
>
> Unladen Swallow is a serious cog in the works as far as Python 3 is
> concerned. I expect the speed boosts to be significant and they're
> targetting the 2.x releases. If a public release candidate is ready,
> it's a solid argument to *not* migrate to 3.0. I'd love for the
> changes to be ported to 3.0 but have no idea of how much work or what
> kind is involved which is why I'm itching to have Mahadevan speak this
> next Sunday. :)
>
>
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> ~noufal
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