Ant wrote: > I've just seen this: http://sheddingbikes.com/posts/1285063820.html > > Whatever you think of Zed Shaw (author of the Mongrel Ruby server and > relatively recent Python convert), he has a very good point in this. I > run Fedora 12 on my home computers, and find it far too much hassle to > try to get Python 3 installed. Even the 2.x's are behind - IIRC think > it currently uses 2.5.
Once you remove the Zedshawisms the article's claim boils down to - If you want to install and run a python script on a wide range of Linux distributions you have to stay compatible with Python 2.4. - Users of languages competing with Python tend to avoid applications that use Python, even if that usage is mostly under the hood -- but they don't mind using a program written in C. > So I really think this is a barrier to entry to Python 3 that we could > do without - it's the only reason I do all of my Python work in 2.x, I > would jump at migrating to Python 3 if it was easily available on > Fedora. > > Is there a solution to this that anyone knows of? More practical people than Zed (or his online persona) don't see it as a problem. > Has Zed jumped to conclusions? He jumped indeed, to another language, and he will do it again, but not without telling the world. > Have I? I think migration from 2.x to 3.x will be hard for large infrastructures but that doesn't seem to be your concern. Peter PS: Is the Paul Graham quote real? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
