[Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 3.0 final

[C. Titus Brown]

On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 06:03:55AM -0000, glyph at divmod.com wrote:
-> On 01:47 am, guido at python.org wrote:
-> >>In spite of Python being a programming language, there is a difference
-> >>between 'casual user of the language' and 'library developer'; 3.0 is
-> >>certainly a must for all actual library developers, and I'm sure most 
-> >>of
-> >>them know about 3.0 by now. We're talking about first impressions for 
-> >>people
-> >>without that knowledge.
-> >
-> >Well if most library developers already know 3.0 by now, I would hope
-> >they aren't going to sit on their hands, and solve the issues at hand!
-> 
-> The best thing for 3.0 adoption would be a 3.0 "welcoming committee".  A 
-> group of hackers wandering from one popular open source library to 
-> another, writing patches for 3.x compatibility issues.  There must be 
-> lots of people who care about 3.x adoption, and this is probably the 
-> most effective way they can reach that goal.

Does anyone smell a few GSoC projects?  (And maybe GHOP if Google
decides to run it again; no word yet.)

--titus
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C. Titus Brown, ctb at msu.edu