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

Tres Seaver tseaver at palladion.com
Wed Jun 23 20:40:47 CEST 2010

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Glyph Lefkowitz wrote:

I don't speak for Tres, but I don't think he wasn't talking about optimism about adoption, overall, but optimism about adoption rates. And I don't think he was talking about it coming from Guido :).

You channel me correctly here. In particular, the phrase "build it and they will come" was meant to address the idea that the only thing needed to drive adoption was the release of the new, shiny Python3. That particular bit of optimism is what I meant to describe as waning: the community on the whole seems to be more realistic now than two or three years ago about the kind of extra effort required from both core developers and from existing Python 2 folks to get to Python 3.

There has definitely been some "irrational exuberance" from some quarters. The form it usually takes is someone making a blog post which assumes, because the author could port their smallish library or application without too much hassle, that Python 2.x is already dead and everyone should be off of it in a couple of weeks.

I've never heard this position from the core team or any official communication or documentation. Far from it: the realistic attitude that the Python 3 migration is something that will take a while has significantly reduced my own concerns. Even the aforementioned blog posts have been encouraging in some ways, because a lot of people are reporting surprisingly easy transitions.

Indeed.

Tres. - --

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