[Python-Dev] Language Summit notes

[Antoine Pitrou]

Hi Taavi,

Thanks for the report!

> Disussion about packaging continues. Glyph asks if the PSF could fund a
> usability study on installing Python. People generally seem to think
> it's a good idea.

What does this mean exactly? Under OS X and Linux, Python is typically
installed by default. And under Windows, it's a simple installer that
even non-Windows users like me have no problem executing. So what is
the problem this is trying to solve?

> There is no "one installer" that has everything you need for 2.7 right
> now.

Neither for 3.x, for that record.

> Lunch
> ~~~~~
> 
> There was food!

Good to know nobody starved to death :-)

> AP exams are starting to allow Python, but it's 10% of the AP CS exams.

"AP"?
(I thought that was me, but it sounds unlikely :-))

> Selena says that some American parents are worried because they don't
> know if their kids could get jobs [Taavi: loud surprise from audience].

?? That's not exclusively American.

> Estimate of 1 person full time for 1.5 years to get mercurial running on
> Python 3, at half the speed of Python 2.

That sounds exagerated, IMO.

> Guido: Can we get the PSF to issue a press release that 2.7 support will
> continue?

What does "support" mean exactly here?

> -  Glyph will tell us what to do in 3.5.

Thank you, Glyph!

Regards

Antoine.