[Python-Dev] Spreading the Python 3 religion (original) (raw)
Stefan Krah stefan at bytereef.org
Thu Mar 1 12:11:36 CET 2012
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Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
Changes to http://docs.python.org/howto/pyporting.html are welcome. I tried to make sure it exposed all possibilities with tips on how to support as far back as Python 2.5.
I'd like to add a section that highlights the advantages of separate branches. Starting perhaps with:
Advantages of separate branches:
The two code bases are cleaner.
Neither version is a second class citizen.
New Python3 features can be adopted without worrying about conversion tools.
For the developer: psychologically, slowly the py3k version becomes the master branch (as it should).
For the user: running 2to3 on install sends the signal that version 2 is the real version. This is not the case if there are, say, src2/ and src3/ directories in the distribution.
Stefan Krah
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