[csw-maintainers] python question

[Mike Watters]

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Chad Harp wrote:
> Ben Walton wrote:
> 
>> It would be good to keep the 'python' name for the current, but having
>> an optionally available python25 and then python3k would be good.  At
>> what point does python3k become python and the old python become
>> python26 though?
> 
> Can't all of them be handled as modulations within the same gar recipe?
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I agree with Chad. we should have it all in one recipe in gar.
as far as when python3k becomes "python" that is a question there is no
clear answer to.  python3k is a complete re-write of python and very
little, if any, 2.X code will run on 3k.

I would say we would be looking at "reviewing" the need for 2.x at a
minimum of a year after the python 2.X branch is terminated.

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Thanks,
Mike

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex,
and more violent.  It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage --
to move in the opposite direction."

* Albert Einstein 1879 - 1955
    US German-born Theoretical Physicist
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