On 7/17/23 7:24 PM, rich...@karmannghia.org wrote:
OTOH, can Python3 (what's there now) be THAT backwards incompatible?!
How incompatible are AM & FM radio? How incompatible are IPv4 and IPv6? How incompatible are gasoline and Diesel motors?
SURELY I can make it happy somehow, right?
As Carl Z. alluded to, you'll have to /port/ Mailman to Python 3. Though I suspect you will both make some people happy and other people mad at doing so.
How about an ln -s of /usr/local/bin/python to the one in my path?
I don't think that's going to work out nearly as well as you hope it will.
Do I have to install the old Python from source, TOO?!
Maybe if you can't find a version of Python 2.x for your distribution.
P.S. It seems BIZARRE to me that we have the good ole cc and gcc that just work after however many decades, yet the modern developers seem just not have a clue how - or just don't care - to code for longevity - what, the code to get python has to enter python3 now or just die? Really?
Python 2 and Python 3 are enough different to effectively be different languages.
I'm sure you can easily tell I strongly disagree with modern practices about dependencies; "computer science" has gone backwards, at least in strategy! ... But I digress...
I'm inclined to agree with you. But that's just my opinion. Grant. . . . ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list -- mailman-users@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to mailman-users-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/mailman-users.python.org/ Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: https://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/ https://mail.python.org/archives/list/mailman-users@python.org/ Member address: arch...@jab.org
