On Sat, 14 Mar 2009, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Tom Horsley wrote: > > > > I also don't see why it shouldn't be provided as a separate > > package. If it really is all that incompatible it is a completely > > different language anyway, and there is merely a coincidence > > that part of the name is composed of the letters "python" :-). > > > > Certainly the Qt3 gui toolkit is pretty much a completely different > > toolkit than Qt4, and fedora manages to ship both of those. > > There is a pretty big difference between a language with dozens and > dozens of different modules that are often separate sub packages and a > fairly self contained toolkit. Providing parallel versions is not a easy > task and it is not the benefit outweighs the cost as seen in the > discussions at > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue155#The_Looming_Py3K_Monster > > At the moment, it is more of a wait and see if applications adopt it. > Python 3 appears to be a initial developer release with more > incompatible changes coming out. > > http://lwn.net/Articles/317900/ just to be clear, i wasn't pushing for it, i was just asking a question. :-) rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry: Have classroom, will lecture. http://crashcourse.ca Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA ======================================================================== -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
