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[Python-Dev] Spreading the Python 3 religion

Stefan Krah stefan at bytereef.org
Thu Mar 1 12:11:36 CET 2012 
Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> Changes to http://docs.python.org/howto/pyporting.html are welcome. I tried to
> make sure it exposed all possibilities with tips on how to support as far back
> as Python 2.5.

I'd like to add a section that highlights the advantages of separate
branches. Starting perhaps with:

Advantages of separate branches:

  1) The two code bases are cleaner.

  2) Neither version is a second class citizen.

  3) New Python3 features can be adopted without worrying about conversion tools.

  4) For the developer: psychologically, slowly the py3k version becomes the
     master branch (as it should).

  5) For the user: running 2to3 on install sends the signal that version 2
     is the real version. This is not the case if there are, say, src2/
     and src3/ directories in the distribution.



Stefan Krah
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