On 6 July 2010 10:19, Isaac Dupree <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07/06/10 01:57, Lukáš Jirkovský wrote: >> >> Hello Allan, >> I know that I'm just a regular user but I'd like to express my opinion >> too. I think the transition should be done when most modules and >> applications support Python 3. I'd not be surprised if the transition >> of majority of modules would take several years. By that time there >> may be a way how to do a dual rename. > > Hi Lukas, > Can you present a technical reason against doing the renaming now? Because > as far as I can see, Allan has worked out the kinks and it will actually not > harm you as a regular user at all... > > (unless you write personal scripts in python that you want to work with > #!something on multiple distros? (then you probably want to run them in > python version 2) .. I'm not sure I can think of an easy way to do that; > maybe for each distro you use you could put a symlink in > /usr/local/bin/python2 for example.) > > -Isaac >
Hi Isaac, I don't write Python scripts but yeah, I think this is a real problem. The other problem is that there are not many users of python 3 out there. In a more subjective way I think whenever something is set as default it should be the one which has most users (in both terms of people and software). Lukas
