[PyQt] Re: PyQt4 and Python 3.0

[Giovanni Bajo]

On 10/7/2008 12:25 PM, Doug Bell wrote:
> Phil Thompson wrote:
>> On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:29:12 -0700, Glenn Linderman
>> <v+python at g.nevcal.com> wrote:
>>> On approximately 10/6/2008 10:07 PM, came the following characters
>>> from the keyboard of Phil Thompson:
>>>> On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 21:30:49 -0500, "Arthur Pemberton"
>>>> <pemboa at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Take some time with the community, collect opinion on all the bad
>>>>> parts of PyQt, and then make a clean break to rewrite PyQt4 for
>>>>> Python 2.6, making use of future features whenever possible.
>>>> I definitely won't be targeting 2.6 for anything. The idea that
>>>> people will move their 2.x code to 2.6, and then move it again to
>>>> 3.0 is, to me, crazy.
> 
> But the idea that people will do a major move to a new PyQt and then do
> a major move to Python 3.0 isn't crazy?  Personally, I'd rather get it
> over with all at once.

Ask the KDE4 guys about "get it over with all at once". They changed 
SCM, build system and Qt major version at the same time, with no option 
of having releases inbetween. Ask them if they'd ever do that again.
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Giovanni Bajo
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