On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 06:03:31PM -0500, Guido van Rossum wrote: > > I don't think that is a very safe bet. Python 2.0 missed the Debian > > Potato boat. > > This may have had to do more with the unresolved GPL issues. This is very likely. Debian is very licence -- or at least GPL -- aware. Which is a pity, really, because I already prefer it over RedHat in all other cases (and RedHat is also pretty licence aware, just less piously, devoutly, beyond-practicality-IMHO dedicated to the GPL.) > > I have no idea when Woody is expected to be released but I expect it may > > take longer than that if history is any indication. BTW, I believe Debian uses a fairly steady release schedule, something like an unstable->stable switch every year or 6 months or so ? I seem to recall seeing something like that on the debian website, but can't check right now. > And who or what is Woody? Woody is Debian's current development branch, the current bearer of the alias 'unstable'. It'll become Debian 2.3 (I believe, I don't pay attention to version numbers, I just run unstable :) once it's stabilized. 'potato' is the previous development branch, and currently the 'stable' branch. You can compare them with 'rawhide' and 'redhat-7.0', respectively :) (With the enormous difference that you can upgrade your debian install to a new version (even the devel version, or update your machine to the latest devel snapshot) while you are using it, without having to reboot ;) Note to the debian-pythoneers: woody still carries Python 1.5.2, not 2.0. Someone created a separate set of 2.0-packages, but they didn't include readline and gdbm support because of the licencing issues. (Posted on c.l.py sometime this week.) I'm *almost* tempted enough to learn enough about dpkg/.deb files to build my own licence-be-damned set, but it'd be a lot of work to mirror the current debian 1.5.2 set of packages (which include numeric, imaging, mxTools, GTK/GNOME, and a shitload of 3rd party modules) in 2.0. Ponder, maybe it could be done semi-automatically, from the src-deb's of those packages. By the way, in woody, there are 52 packages with 'python' in the name, and 32 with 'perl' in the name... Pity all of my perl-hugging hippy-friends are still blindly using RedHat, and refuse to listen to my calls from the Debian/Python-dark-side :-) Oh, and the names 'woody' and 'potato' came from the movie Toy Story, in case you wondered ;) -- Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net> Hi! I'm a .signature virus! copy me into your .signature file to help me spread!
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