On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 10:08:07AM +0100, Freddy Rietdijk wrote: > Hi, > > As you may be aware the plan is to change to Python 3.5 as default for > 17.03. There were a couple of things that had to be done, and I think we're > ready now to make the change. Packages that require Python 2 are now pinned > to do so. > > Now, obviously I haven't been able to test all packages myself, but judging > from what Hydra reports and from working from the `python3` branch I don't > expect any major issues. > > The Python 2.7 interpreter had quite some patches, among one to make the > interpreter and Python packages more deterministic. I say more, because > they're not fully deterministic yet. I have some patches lining up for the > 3.5 interpreter to improvement determinism there as well. > > In any case, I would like to merge this as soon as possible. Any objections? > > Freddy
Hi, I'm not really an active contributor here but I follow NixOS because I think it's a really cool project. Am I to understand that NixOS is considering replacing the python2 interpreter with the python3 interpreter, as arch did? If that's the case it may be worth considering this pep[1] first. If I've misunderstood and there's no intention to symlink 'python' to 'python3' then please ignore this. :) [1]: http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/#id5 _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev