----- Original Message ----- > On 08/06/2012 04:22 AM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > > The only distribution that has switched is arch. When they did > > there was > > a big uproar about how arch was doing something wrong which > > eventually > > resulted in that PEP. > > Yeah, we mainly wrote PEP 394 in order to nudge *everyone else* into > providing a /usr/bin/python2 symlink to help deal with Arch making > their > bold leap into the unknown (as well as going on record that we think > switching it *right now* is still a bad idea). There's "bleeding > edge" > and then there's "tap dancing on razor blades in your bare feet" :P > > To be honest, I expect that the long term outcome will be that > "/usr/bin/python" becomes solely the preserve of the OS, with all > cross-platform scripts and applications using "/usr/bin/pythonX", > software collections, or language level virtual environments. > > From an end user perspective, having things mostly compatible with > both > 2 and 3 should come *before* that symlink gets flipped rather than > after. > > Cheers, > Nick. >
Ok, then I would suggest using Tom Spura's idea about making only python2- and python3- packages (maybe with the virtual python- provides for python2- packages, as Toshio has mentioned). We could target this for F19 and we could also start helping various upstreams with switching to python 3 and see where this will take us. Does that sound good? > -- > Nick Coghlan > Red Hat Infrastructure Engineering & Development, Brisbane > _______________________________________________ > python-devel mailing list > python-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/python-devel -- Regards, Bohuslav "Slavek" Kabrda. _______________________________________________ python-devel mailing list python-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/python-devel
