From: Paul I. <piv...@gm...> - 2011-02-26 00:31:35
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Benjamin Root, on 2011-02-25 18:03, wrote: > On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Paul Ivanov <piv...@gm...> wrote: > > By the way, there was a recent poll on python.org for packages > > where users desire Python 3 support. > > > > Here are the top 10: > > > > Votes | Package > > ------+-------- > > 837 | Django > > 454 | wxPython > > 406 | scipy > > 364 | matplotlib > > 327 | PIL > > 266 | py2exe > > 185 | Twisted > > 179 | PyGTK > > 135 | Pygame > > 94 | web2py > > > > http://python.org/3kpoll > > Which just goes to show that some people don't understand dependencies... > (PIL and PyGTK are needed by matplotllib to be fully py3k compatible). > Hopefully this will light a fire for them as well. Well, this was a user poll - users shouldn't have to know or express all of the dependencies for a given package that they use - that's for us package developers to figure out. To quote from the poll conclusions: What does this poll mean? Off-hand, nothing: nominating a package will not mean that its authors now start porting it to Python 3. However, we still hope that this still has some effect on the Python community: * Volunteers trying to help now see where help is most wanted * Package authors now see that there really is (or is not) demand for getting their package ported. It's that last point that I was trying to highlight for us, as matplotlib was the fourth most nominated package for py3k support. best, -- Paul Ivanov 314 address only used for lists, off-list direct email at: http://pirsquared.org | GPG/PGP key id: 0x0F3E28F7 |