On 24.11.18 18:33, Barry Warsaw wrote: > 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.
well, we are using that as a transition mechanism, trying not to support more than one Python2/Python3 version. And there are still packages where package maintainers only provide one Python3.x extension module. Yes, Ubuntu 18.10 has both 3.6 (default) and 3.7, but mainly because the time was to short to do the switch (which is now done in the Ubuntu development version). _______________________________________________ Linux-sig mailing list -- linux-sig@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to linux-sig-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/linux-sig.python.org
