Python 3.0

[Josh Boyer]

On Sat, 1 Sep 2007 10:38:07 +0200
Patrice Dumas <pertusus at free.fr> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 02:35:11PM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:02:37 -0400
> > Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Anyone working on a package for this yet?
> > > 
> > > http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.0/
> > 
> > You really want to have a parallel installable alpha package of
> > python?  I think that would be a no-no.  If we allowed that, the we
> > should allow a parallel installable compat-python package.
> 
> Do we disallow that? In my opinion there shouldn't be a possibility for
> anybody to disallow a free software package to enter devel. And a
> package of enough quality to enter stable releases.

We do.  FESCo has gone over this at least twice.  No parallel
installable python packages have been allowed.  For a very long and
agonizing read, see the zope/plone thread from a year or so ago.

josh