On Friday 25 March 2016 10:03:34 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 24/03/2016 19:19, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Thursday 24 March 2016 11:54:03 Dale wrote: > >> I'm not sure if this has changed but I think it used to be recommended > >> not to set Python 3 stuff to active, at the time anyway. That may have > >> changed. I read that either here or on -dev a good while back. May > >> want to see what others think on this or it could be that everything > >> you > >> use works fine that way. > > > > I saw that too, and I've always been sure to eselect python to 2.7, but > > for a long time now the installation CD has come with 3.3 or 3.4 set, > > so I assume it's okay to eselect 3.4 nowadays. > > It's probably not safe, python2 and python3 are basically different > languages, not really compatible. Out there in the wild, there are still > more python apps not migrated to use python3 than have been migrated. > > A user has 2 choices: > > - set python2 as default and configure packages that can use python3 to > use it > - set python3 as default and configure packages that requires python2 to > use it > > Which method you use depends entirely on what packages you use.
But Gentoo has two python versions set: a python 2 and a python 3. I assume that ebuilds specify which version they need, so the default is rarely used. In that case it won't matter which is set as default. -- Rgds Peter linux counter 5290, 1994/04/23
