[Python-Dev] Python Library Support in 3.x (Was: email package status in 3.X)

[Mark Lawrence]

On 19/06/2010 14:43, Georg Brandl wrote:
> Am 19.06.2010 15:09, schrieb Arc Riley:
>> Just because legacy Python needs to be kept around for a bit longer for
>> a few uses does not mean that "Python 3 is not ready yet".  Any decent
>> package system can have two or more versions of Python installed at the
>> same time.
>>
>> It is not "critical self-evaluation" to repeat "Python 3 is not ready"
>> as litany in #Python and your supporting website.  I use the word
>> "litany" here because #Python refers users to what appears to be a
>> religious website http://python-commandments.org/python3.html
>>
>> I have further witnessed (and even been the other party to) you and
>> other ops in #Python telling package developers, who have clearly said
>> that they are working to port their legacy package to Py3, that "Python
>> 3 is not ready".  One of our Summer of Code students this year actually
>> included in his application that he was told (strongly) in #Python that
>> he shouldn't be working with Py3 - even after he expressed his intent to
>> apply under the PSF to help with the Py3 migration effort as his project.
>
> Ouch.  Looks like it's time for the PSU to release the 10-ton wei
>

Please raise a new issue, the weight should be 16 ton to conform to 
Python standards.

Cheers.

Mark Lawrence.