On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:44 AM, Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote: > On Feb 14, 2012, at 12:38 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > >>> One other thing I'd like to see the PEP address is a possible migration >>> strategy to python->python3. Even if that strategy is "don't do it, man!". >>> IOW, can a distribution change the 'python' symlink once it's pointed to >>> python2? What is the criteria for that? Is it up to a distribution? Will >>> the PEP get updated when our collective wisdom says its time to change the >>> default? etc. >> >>I have no idea, and I'm not going to open that can of worms for this >>PEP. We need to say something about the executable aliases so that >>people can eventually write cross-platform python2 shebang lines, but >>how particular distros actually manage the transition is going to >>depend more on their infrastructure and community than it is anything >>to do with us. > > Then I think all the PEP needs to say is that it is explicitly up to the > distros to determine if, when, where, and how they transition. I.e. take it > off of python-dev's plate.
Yeah, good idea. I'll also add an explicit link to the announcement of the Arch Linux transition [1] that precipitated this PEP. [1] https://www.archlinux.org/news/python-is-now-python-3/ -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ 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