[Python-Dev] Python Library Support in 3.x (Was: email package status in 3.X) (original) (raw)

exarkun at twistedmatrix.com exarkun at twistedmatrix.com
Sat Jun 19 16:28:00 CEST 2010

On 01:09 pm, arcriley at gmail.com wrote:

[snip] It is not "critical self-evaluation" to repeat "Python 3 is not ready" as litany in #Python and your supporting website. I use the word "litany" here because #Python refers users to what appears to be a religious website http://python-commandments.org/python3.html

It's not my website. I don't own the domain, I don't control the hosting, I didn't generate the content, I have no access to change anything on it. I've barely even frequent #python in the last three years.

Perhaps you were directing those comments at Stephen Thorne though (although I don't know if he's any more involved in it than I am so don't take this as anything but idle speculation).

I have further witnessed (and even been the other party to) you and other ops in #Python telling package developers, who have clearly said that they are working to port their legacy package to Py3, that "Python 3 is not ready".

I'm not going to condone or condemn events which I didn't observe.

However you've never witnessed me discouraging developers who were actively porting software to Python 3 because I've never done it. I'm sure this was an honest mistake and you simply confused me with someone else.

Besides rally against it what have you, as a Twisted developer, done regarding the Python 3 migration process?

This, however, I find extremely insulting. I don't answer to you. The only reason I'm replying at all is to correct the two pieces of misinformation in your message.

I don't see how this discussion can go anywhere productive, so I'll do my best to make this my last post on the subject. Obviously I made a mistake posting to the thread at all.

Jean-Paul

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