Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Wednesday, April 13, 2011 09:22:44 AM Barry Warsaw wrote: > > On Apr 11, 2011, at 07:22 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > >Hopefully it will gain additional sanity before approval (the authors did > > >improve it based on comments I sent them it could still be better). The > > >notion that /usr/bin/python pointing to any python3 version in the near > > >term is anything other than crazy talk is, well, crazy. > > > > I agree we're[*] not there yet. But I do think we're at a tipping point. > > At Pycon 2011, where in previous years the responses were largely "we have > > no plans to port to Python 3", it's now quite common to hear "we have an > > experimental branch to support it" or "people are working on it". So I do > > think it's worth Debian thinking about, planning for, and possibly helping > > with a transition to Python 3. > > > > Python 2 won't go away any time soon. If I had to guess, I'd say we're > > probably 18-24 months away from actually being *able* to make python3 the > > default, which I think is pretty well aligned with Guido's 5-year plan. > > > > Cheers, > > -Barry > > > > [*] and by "we" I mean the larger Python community, not just Debian. > > If by "default" you mean something like "the version we normally use", then I > agree. If you mean pointing /usr/bin/python at a python3 version, I don't. > Taking that step is not just about what's in the archive, it's about the > stacks and stacks of small python scripts that are used everywhere, but never > published. Changing /usr/bin/python to be python3 is something I think > happens about one release before we remove python2 entirely. I don't think > that's where we'll be in two years.
Can't that be solved in the release notes when that happens? Something like: python3 is now the default /usr/bin/python, so if you have existing python2 scripts you will need to make sure to use /usr/bin/python2 instead (or convert them to python3). Best wishes, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110413094233.f87b2d8c.michael.s.gilb...@gmail.com