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I'm interested to see how the distro's manage this. Ubuntu seems to always have the latest and greatest, but I can't see them upgrading to Py3k any time soon. T

I'm interested to see how the distro's manage this. Ubuntu seems to always have the latest and greatest, but I can't see them upgrading to Py3k any time soon. There's just still too much that relies on 2.x. GvR said that new stuff should be built on py3k, but I'm betting it will be quite some time before anyone develops anything of significance on it. At work, even though we're in the early stages of developing our product, we're still sticking with 2.5 for the foreseeable future. I imagine the adoption rate for Py3k will be worse than PHP5.

thomasmallen 18y ago
I think that PHP 5 relatively brought so much more to the table, and there's the security factor of keeping your PHP up to date.
neovive 18y ago
The comparison to PHP5 is definitely interesting. PHP5 was released around 2004 with significant upgrades to the language with a high degree of backwards-compatibility and it still hasn't reached complete adoption. Only now with official support coming to an end and more web host support, will it become the standard. The adoption of Python 3 will likely differ, since Python is not a standard feature of low-cost web hosts and has a wide range of uses outside of web development. It should be interesting to see how this plays out.