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

[Brett Cannon]

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 11:22, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> 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.
>

Is it really that confusing? I have never heard of anyone asking "what is
py3k?" Plus I like keeping that bit of Python history around. I know I still
use py3k as shorthand for Python 3.x. And we are not that serious of a
bunch. =)


>
> I think the two repos should be either symmetrically named
>
> hg.python.org/py2
> hg.python.org/py3
>

If we make it universal I say it should be '2.x' and '3.x'. The whole 'py'
prefix is redundant.


>
> If one must be designated 'main', it should be py3.
>
> Continuing to call py2 'main' will continue to discourage use of py3.


Yeah, 2.x shouldn't be special anymore.
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