[pypy-dev] python 3

[Dan Stromberg]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Eli Stevens (Gmail)
<wickedgrey at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Yury Selivanov <yselivanov.ml at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > +1 to the question.  Why can't it be that way?
>
> If by "that way" you mean "leave python 2.x behind post 1.6" I'd like
> to note that IMO pypy has been under-acknowledged by the wider python
> community for a very long time.  That's finally starting to change
> (pypy production releases, cpython devs devoting resources to make
> alternate implementations not second-class citizens, etc.), but by
> abandoning the segment of the language with the largest userbase, the
> project would go back to niche status again.  Yeah, doing so might
> position pypy well to become the default python 3 implementation, but
> I find it hard to imagine that tacking on another N years until pypy
> is a significant percentage of python deployments is going to be good
> for the project.
>

There's a large difference between "Abandoning 2.x" and "Starting the ball
rolling toward 3.x in a timely manner".  If anything, not having a plan for
the move to 3.x is more likely to sideline the PyPy project.

BTW, a lot of sites use software that'll ask you which branches you want to
check each of your changesets into - IOW, click two buttons and your checkin
could go to 2.x and 3.x.  I don't know if there's anything free for
Mercurial like that.
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