On 2018-04-24 22:39:48 +0200 (+0200), Andrea Bolognani wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 12:29:54AM +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > Looking at other distros is interesting. If I understand well, they will > > never have Python 2 and 3 interpreters in the distro, and will > > completely switch from 2 to 3 at once. > > Unless I'm misunderstanding, I don't think you're correct. > > To give a concrete example, Fedora switched to using Python 3 > as the default several releases ago[1]; despite that, Python 2 > is still available in the archive, and will get pulled in when > installing software that (regrettably) hasn't been ported yet. > > The same is true for FreeBSD and, I believe, Ubuntu. I'm not > familiar with the approach other distributions and OS are > taking, but I would expect it to be fairly similar. [...]
Rumor has it that RHEL 8 will be dropping Python 2 while (finally!) adding Python 3. Much of that is fueled by the Deprecated Functionality[*] section of the RHEL 7.5 Release Notes wherein it states, "Python 2 will be replaced with Python 3 in the next Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) major release." [*] <URL: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.5_release_notes/chap-red_hat_enterprise_linux-7.5_release_notes-deprecated_functionality > -- Jeremy Stanley
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