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

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Sat Dec 6 23:36:11 CET 2008

On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 22:03, <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.

The welcoming committee has somewhat already started. Martin announced on python-porting that he ported psycopg2 himself and submitted the patch. Martin also mostly ported Django at the last PyCon.

-Brett

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