Re: Proposal: Python 3 in Fedora 13

[Seth Vidal <skvidal fedoraproject org>]

On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, David Malcolm wrote:

> Treating it as a new language is the intent, and I'll make every effort
> to keep them separated.
>
> In theory there wouldn't be any problems.  However if I screw up and
> somehow cross the streams, I run the risk of breaking _lots_ of things;
> yum is the most obvious victim in the critical path. Obviously I don't
> want to do that.
>
> I'm not volunteering to put it into F12.  I think that anyone wanting to
> push it into F12 needs to sign up for a lot of testing (brainstorming
> some testcases: can you still compile and build external modules with
> both 2 and 3 -devel subpackages installed?  does every configure script
> pick up the correct version? etc)

Now- perhaps a repo with your package in it that someone could consume on 
f12 would be a straightforward goal...

if you need extra space on fedorapeople.org for this - let me know.

-sv