Re: [BangPypers] Python moratorium

2009-11-13 Thread Sidharth Kuruvila
This is to allow the alternate implementations to catch up, and not really about the users of the python language. Adding breaking changes between versions of python 3 would just be bad language design, so users should be fine either way. I've found myself quite happy using many of the new feature

Re: [BangPypers] Python moratorium

2009-11-13 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: [..] > I am a fairly typical enduser of python, and basically I am still slowly > migrating to 2.5 (which is now getting available on production servers). So we > are happy that there is a pause.[..] The moratorium is only on the language

Re: [BangPypers] Python moratorium

2009-11-13 Thread Shashwat Anand
Python widespread adoption is better idea. It's good to have a newer version arrive after a gap, so we can play catchup game. I hadn't still migrated to 3 though, still stuck with 2.6.2. The reason is same as everyone else. On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > On Fri, Nov 13

Re: [BangPypers] Python moratorium

2009-11-12 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Anand Balachandran Pillai wrote: > On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > >> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Anand Balachandran Pillai >> wrote: >> > A.M. Kuchling has published an article related to this on LWN. >> > This has been under dis

Re: [BangPypers] Python moratorium

2009-11-12 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Friday 13 Nov 2009 11:50:32 am Anand Balachandran Pillai wrote: > > > It would be interesting to know the opinion of folks here on > > > this...[..] > > > > I've been following the discussion. I think it's eminently sensible. > > I also thought so. More than the catching up part, I think perha

Re: [BangPypers] Python moratorium

2009-11-12 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Anand Balachandran Pillai > wrote: > > A.M. Kuchling has published an article related to this on LWN. > > This has been under discussion in Pydev for a couple of weeks now... > > > > It would be interesti

Re: [BangPypers] Python moratorium

2009-11-12 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Anand Balachandran Pillai wrote: > A.M. Kuchling has published an article related to this on LWN. > This has been under discussion in Pydev for a couple of weeks now... > > It would be interesting to know the opinion of folks here on this...[..] I've been followi

Re: [BangPypers] Python moratorium

2009-11-12 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Friday 13 Nov 2009 11:12:05 am Anand Balachandran Pillai wrote: > A.M. Kuchling has published an article related to this on LWN. > This has been under discussion in Pydev for a couple of weeks now... > > It would be interesting to know the opinion of folks here on this... > > http://lwn.net/Su

[BangPypers] Python moratorium

2009-11-12 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
A.M. Kuchling has published an article related to this on LWN. This has been under discussion in Pydev for a couple of weeks now... It would be interesting to know the opinion of folks here on this... http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/361266/ef88bdbed5369800/ Here is the related PEP link. http://ww