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Fri Jul 3 20:41:00 CEST 2009 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-July/090354.html

Terry Reedy wrote:
> Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
> 
>> It needs to be decided where the hg repositories will live. I'd like
>> to propose to keep the hgwebdir instance at hg.python.org. This is an
>> accepted standard for many organizations, and an easy parallel to
>> svn.python.org. The 2.7 (trunk) repo might live at
>> http://hg.python.org/main/, for example, with py3k at
>> http://hg.python.org/py3k/.
> 
> I would very much like the 'k' dropped from the py3 name. It was a funny 
> joke when py3 was vaporware, now it is excess baggage which only puzzles 
> non-insiders and newcomers.
> 
> I think the two repos should be either symmetrically named
> 
> hg.python.org/py2
> hg.python.org/py3
> 
> If one must be designated 'main', it should be py3.
> 
> Continuing to call py2 'main' will continue to discourage use of py3.
> 
We could regard py3k as the phase from the original concept of Python 3
to its 'prototype', Python 3.0. Python 3.1 would be the first
'real/usable' version.

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