On Nov 24, 2018, at 12:02, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> * Maintaining parallel Python stacks is complicated: if you add a
> second Python interpreter to a system, you have to duplicate all the
> Standard Operating Environment APIs as well (distro Python stack
> maintainers hit that constraint pretty often). That's a much bigger
> increase in complexity than giving the existing stack an additional
> alias.

FTR, Debian/Ubuntu have been able to support multiple Python versions 
(including multiple within the same major version number) for many years now.

-Barry

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