On 12 March 2018 at 15:46, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > The python portgroup defaults to version 2.7, and in ports that have python > variants, I've used that version by default as well. > > I was reminded by the members of the MacPorts meeting that it has been > announced that python 2's end-of-life will be in 2020, which is coming up. > > Should we change the default python version to 3.6 now, or soon?
What does that change actually mean? Which software could potentially be affected? I don't quite understand all the consequences since we are not installing "python" by default and most of our ports specify python version in one way or another and also make sure that the "correct" version of python is being used. (At the moment we don't even ship any Python 3-compatible solution for wxWidgets, buildbot etc.) It could be nice if someone finds a way to list all ports where something could potentially change if default python version gets changed. Mojca