Hi At some point, the migration will have to be done. According to PEP373[1], python2 will not be maintained after 2020. Therefore, we have a 3 year window to do this change, and I do not think we should wait the last moment.
There will be difficulties for the users when this change will be done. I have no doubt about that. I do not know if there will be a `good' moment to do it. As far as I know, the main distros still use python2 (except for arch) and I do not know what are their schedules for such migration. Personally, I have no objection to use python3 as default for 17.03 (and I will continue to rely on python2 for some time, but this will be a good motivation to migrate our legacy code bases!). Lancelot. On 14/02/2017 14:05, Freddy Rietdijk wrote: > > As to your question what the advantages are. Well, aside from the fact > that upstream wants everyone to move away from Python 2, there aren't > any, really. It makes sense for them, they don't want to support old > code. Sure, the Python 3 interpreter can be faster, but then again, > the closure is somewhat bigger. Furthermore, there's a good chance you > need now both 2 and 3 on your system. If you want to develop with 3, > you already can (and should), so there isn't any advantage there either. > > [1] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0373/ _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev