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On 5/17/2011 12:07 PM, lkcl wrote:
> On May 4, 7:37 pm, Terry Reedy<tjre...@udel.edu>  wrote:
>> On 5/4/2011 10:06 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
>>> pyjamasis a suite of projects, including a python-to-javascript
>>> compiler

>> As you well know, there is no such thing as 'python' when it comes to
>> compiling actual code. So please specify both in announcements here and
>> on the project homepagehttp://sourceforge.net/projects/pyjamas/
>> which versions are supported.

 > [no response]

I would still like to know. Do you fully support 2.7? It has many of the 
same changes that are in 3.1 and even 3.2 so I can imagine it would be 
difficult.

>> If you do not yet support 3.x, I request and recommend that you do so,
>
> with the situation as it is, there is not a snowball in hell's chance
> that's going to happen. allow me to explain.

Thank you for the explanation. You are right that I probably 
underestimated the work, though you have or will do some of what is 
needed to fully support 2.7.

...
>   otherwise please - really: just saying "give me support for python
> 3.x or else" is ...

And I did not say that. I first learned Python with 1.3 and could again 
write 2.x code if motivated.

...
>   leaving _that_ aside, there happens to be absolutely no really good
> compelling reason to support python 3.x in the first place.

Depend on who *you* want to target as users. *Your* choice, of course.

> "python 3 is the future of python" gimme a break!!

Let's discuss that in a couple of years.

> [so why is archlinux the only linux distribution that's converted
 > over to run everything off of python 3.x?]

Because being first is their thing.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy