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

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Mon Jun 21 18:35:08 CEST 2010

On 6/21/2010 11:31 AM, Arc Riley wrote:

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.

I do not think 2.x should be dissed any more than 3.x, which is to say, not at all. The impression I got from lurking on #python last night, in between disconnects, is that at least a couple of people feel that there is a move afoot to push people to Python3. Whether that had any connection to discussions here, I could not tell.

Having pypi.python.org/py2 and pypi.python.org/py3 though might be a good idea. Inquiries from either url would automatically filter. The counterargument is that there may be people looking for packages available for both.

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.

The default ordering for search results is by rating.

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packages on there that only work on Python 2.2-2.4 (for example), or with a specific highly outdated version of another package, etc.

And there are people running those versions. I think better classification and filtering is the answer, though hard to mandate.

Terry Jan Reedy

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