[Python-Dev] #Python3 ! ? (was Python Library Support in 3.x) (original) (raw)

Arc Riley arcriley at gmail.com
Mon Jun 21 17:31:08 CEST 2010

Personally, I'd like to celebrate the upcoming Python 3.2 release (which will hopefully include 3to2) with moving all packages which do not have the 'Programming Language :: Python :: 3' classifier to a "Legacy" section of PyPI and offer only Python 3 packages otherwise. Of course put a banner at the top clearly explaining that Python 2 packages can be found in the Legacy section.

Radical, I know, but at some point we really need to make this move.

PyPI really needs a mechanism to cull out the moribund packages from being displayed next to the actively maintained ones. There's so many packages on there that only work on Python 2.2-2.4 (for example), or with a specific highly outdated version of another package, etc.

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Stephan Richter <stephan.richter at gmail.com

wrote:

On Monday, June 21, 2010, Nick Coghlan wrote: > A decent listing of major packages that already support Python 3 would > be very handy for the new Python2orPython3 page I created on the wiki, > and easier to keep up-to-date. (the old Early2to3Migrations page > didn't look particularly up to date, but hopefully we can keep the new > list in a happier state).

I really just want to be able to go to PyPI, Click on "Browse packages" and then select "Python 3" (it can currently be accomplished by clicking "Python" and then "3"). Of course, package developers need to be encouraged to add these Trove classifiers so that the listings are as complete as possible. Regards, Stephan -- Entrepreneur and Software Geek Google me. "Zope Stephan Richter" -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20100621/966ac57c/attachment.html>

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