[Zope3-dev] Re: What does python 3000 mean for zope?

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

Martijn Faassen wrote:
> Martin Aspeli wrote:
>> Paul Winkler wrote:
>>> On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 05:39:45PM +0100, Martin Aspeli wrote:
>>>> Has there been a strong statement that there won't be a Python 2.7 
>>>> and beyond? Will Python 2.x be actively killed off?
>>>
>>> Quite the opposite, Guido proposed last year to do 2.7, 2.8, and 2.9.
>>> After that it's not clear to me.
>>>
>>>> In the discussion on Python 2.x and 3.x compatibility, substitute 
>>>> the word "Zope" for "Python" and think of the irony.
>>>
>>> I'm still waiting for the announcement of Python "Five" :-)
>>
>> I suggest we call it Python -1; 2 - 3 = -1.
> 
> Ironically a Python runtime that could run both Python 2 and Python 3 
> code and have it interoperate would be the one thing that would put my 
> mind at rest. Unfortunately the core developers have also dismissed this 
> as an option; too much work, basically. Which is also ironic as they're 
> certainly causing a lot of work for everybody else with this move. :)

My secret hope is that we could generate such a runtime with PyPy (which 
I find much more promising and interesting than Py3k anyway).


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