[Python-Dev] Mercurial migration: progress report (PEP 385)

[Terry Reedy]

MRAB wrote:
> Terry Reedy wrote:
>> Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
>>
>>> It needs to be decided where the hg repositories will live. I'd like
>>> to propose to keep the hgwebdir instance at hg.python.org. This is an
>>> accepted standard for many organizations, and an easy parallel to
>>> svn.python.org. The 2.7 (trunk) repo might live at
>>> http://hg.python.org/main/, for example, with py3k at
>>> http://hg.python.org/py3k/.
>>
>> I would very much like the 'k' dropped from the py3 name. It was a 
>> funny joke when py3 was vaporware, now it is excess baggage which only 
>> puzzles non-insiders and newcomers.
>>
>> I think the two repos should be either symmetrically named
>>
>> hg.python.org/py2
>> hg.python.org/py3
>>
>> If one must be designated 'main', it should be py3.
>>
>> Continuing to call py2 'main' will continue to discourage use of py3.
>>
> We could regard py3k as the phase from the original concept of Python 3
> to its 'prototype', Python 3.0. 

Right. And that phase is over, especially with Barry posting today on 
python-list that there will be no more 3.0.x releases ever.

> Python 3.1 would be the first 'real/usable' version.

Right. 'is'.  as Barry also posted.

tjr