[Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 3.0 final (original) (raw)

C. Titus Brown ctb at msu.edu
Sat Dec 6 20:43:42 CET 2008

On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 06:03:55AM -0000, glyph at divmod.com wrote: -> On 01:47 am, guido at python.org wrote: -> >>In spite of Python being a programming language, there is a difference -> >>between 'casual user of the language' and 'library developer'; 3.0 is -> >>certainly a must for all actual library developers, and I'm sure most -> >>of -> >>them know about 3.0 by now. We're talking about first impressions for -> >>people -> >>without that knowledge. -> > -> >Well if most library developers already know 3.0 by now, I would hope -> >they aren't going to sit on their hands, and solve the issues at hand! -> -> The best thing for 3.0 adoption would be a 3.0 "welcoming committee". A -> group of hackers wandering from one popular open source library to -> another, writing patches for 3.x compatibility issues. There must be -> lots of people who care about 3.x adoption, and this is probably the -> most effective way they can reach that goal.

Does anyone smell a few GSoC projects? (And maybe GHOP if Google decides to run it again; no word yet.)

--titus

C. Titus Brown, ctb at msu.edu

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