On 2016-11-05 17:43:48 +1000 (+1000), Nick Coghlan wrote: [...] > Putting my work hat back on for a moment, I actually wish more people > *would* start saying that, as Red Hat actively want people to stop > running their own applications in the system Python, and start using > Software Collections (either directly or via the Docker images) > instead. Sharing a language runtime environment between operating > system components and end user applications creates all sorts of > maintainability problems (not least of which is the inability to > upgrade to new feature releases for fear of breaking end user > applications and vice-versa), to the point where Fedora is planning to > cede the "/usr/bin/python3" namespace to end users, and start > migrating system components out to "/usr/bin/system-python": > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/System_Python [...]
It's a grey area, complicated by the fact that many people are writing their software with the intent of also packaging it for/in common distros and so want to make sure it works with the "system Python" present within them. There it looks like Fedora is splitting their Python-using packages along some arbitrary line of "is it a system component?" vs. "is it a user-facing application?" which is probably tractable given the (relatively) limited number of packages in their distribution. I can't fathom how to go about trying to introduce a similar restructuring in, say, Debian. -- Jeremy Stanley _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
