[Python-Dev] Future of 2.x. (original) (raw)

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Thu Jun 10 19:51:49 CEST 2010

On Jun 10, 2010, at 09:01 AM, Steve Holden wrote:

The current stumbling block isn't the language itself, it's the lack of support from third-party libraries. GSoC is addressing some of these issues, but so far we (the PSF, the dev community, anybody else except R. David Murray) haven't really come to grips with intractable problems like the broken state of the email package, and we are not doing well at attracting funds to support it.

So I think we need to address a larger issue than just the language. As a development community we decided to change the language. Now we have to do what we can to ensure that the changed language has appropriate support.

This is exactly my point - I totally agree. Let's take all that pent up energy and apply it to porting important libraries to Python 3.

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