[Python-Dev] Continuing 2.x (original) (raw)

geremy condra debatem1 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 28 19:33:56 CEST 2010

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 11:48 PM, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:

Am 28.10.2010 06:13, schrieb Daniel Stutzbach:

2010/10/27 Kristján Valur Jónsson <kristjan at ccpgames.com_ _<mailto:kristjan at ccpgames.com>>

Firstly, the ease of integrating changes.  It would be possible to port those bugfixes that release-27 gets, and also backport selected things from py3k using the tools already in place such as svnmerge.

py3k will soon be moving to Mercurial, so svnmerge would not be helpful for much longer.  On the plus side, since Mercurial is a Distributed Version Control System, if you setup an unofficial continuation of Python 2 on the host of your choice, it will be easy for you to pull patches from py3k. I believe we'll eventually have the ability to create user repos as well, so that Kristjan can simply put his branch into one of these and still have it on hg.python.org. Georg

Huge +1 from me- I think this would be an excellent development.

Geremy Condra

PS- this should not be taken as an endorsement of the original proposal, I simply don't use 2.x anymore and don't have an opinion on it.

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