> From: nicolas.mail...@laposte.net
> 
> 
> Le Ven 19 juillet 2013 17:04, Tomas Mraz a écrit :
> > On Fri, 2013-07-19 at 10:17 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> 
> >> So while I encourage a Fedora effort to get onto Python3 by default,
> >> well before 2015, I don't think we should assume that Python2 support
> >> is definitely going to stop in 2015.
> >
> > +1 Breaking completely needlessly backwards compatibility this way is
> > really not a good idea.
> 
> OTOH, it's better to give a heads-up this way (with the option to change
> shebangs as short-term workaround) than drop users cold at python2 
removal
> time (which *will* eventually come). Some people really need some 
breakage
> to notice they're missing a migration.


Excellent point!  If I were caught unaware, I'd much rather have to fix up 
a bunch shebang lines and learn that I need to get going on my migration 
pronto than the alternative of finding one day that python2 is just gone 
where one is left with either a hurried port or downloading python2 from 
external sources.


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John Florian

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