On Sun, 25 Nov 2018 at 03:41, Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> 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.
Aye, and so has Fedora. Even RHEL/CentOS are going down that path for the next several years. Google, Facebook, and a few others also maintain their own in-house Python stacks. However, there's no contradiction between "This task is sufficiently difficult to be impractical for many, and perhaps even most, in-house IT organisations" and "Despite the complexity of the task, some of the largest Linux distributions and enterprise organisations do it anyway". Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ 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
