[Python-Dev] email package status in 3.X (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Sun Jun 20 19:47:47 CEST 2010

On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 02:30:17 +0900 "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:

Antoine Pitrou writes:

> I think it's an unfortunate analogy. Propose a better one, then. I'm definitely not wedded to the ones I've proposed!

I'm not sure why you want an analogy. Python 3 improves the language and drops legacy cruft. Bringing C++ makes the description unnecessarily contentious and loaded (because C++ has a rather bad reputation amongst many people; recently Linus Torvalds explained again why he thought C was much more appropriate a programming language). And it's not even warranted, because the situation is vastly different.

What do you suggest? Or do you think there's no PR problem we should worry about, just accept that this going to be a further drag on adoption and improvement, and keep on keeping on?

I suppose the PR problem could be solved by having an official page on python.org explain what the new features and advantages of Python 3 over Python 2 are. There's no such thing right now; actually, I'm not sure there's a Web page explaining clearly what the difference is about, why it was done in such a compatibility-breaking way, and what we advise (both actual and potential) users to do.

I suppose that's a task for the "Web content editor community".

Regards

Antoine.

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