On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > This is the beauty of free software, you can always build it from source in whatever way you choose and play with it :) (that's actually what I'm planning to do in near future) -- Armin Moradi -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
