On 2011-11-22, at 17:41 , Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Barry Warsaw writes: >> Hopefully, we're going to be making a dent in that in the next version of >> Ubuntu. > > This is still a big mess in Gentoo and MacPorts, though. MacPorts > hasn't done anything about ceating a transition infrastructure AFAICT. What kind of "transition infrastructure" would it need? It's definitely not going to replace the Apple-provided Python out of the box, so setting `python` to a python3 is not going to happen.
It doesn't define a `python3`, so maybe that? Is there a document somewhere on what kind of things distros need for a transition plan? > Gentoo has its "eselect python set VERSION" stuff, but it's very > dangerous to set to a Python 3 version, as many things go permanently > wonky once you do. (So far I've been able to work around problems > this creates, but it's not much fun.) Macports provide `port select` which I believe has the same function (you need to install the `python_select` for it to be configured for the Python group), the syntax is port `select --set python $VERSION`: > python --version Python 2.6.1 > sudo port select --set python python32 Selecting 'python32' for 'python' succeeded. 'python32' is now active. > python --version Python 3.2.2 _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
