It's certainly an interesting transition period. I'm not sure that the community is quite ready to just drop 2.7, but we could take a hint from angular <https://angularjs.org/>'s solution to this issue and use small descriptions to guide more people to 3.6 rather than 2.7, then move to 2.7 being substantially smaller, then eventually to dropping 2.7.
-Ryan Birmingham On 26 January 2017 at 11:11, Victor Stinner <victor.stin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > The download button of https://www.python.org/ currently gives the > choice between Python 2.7 and 3.6. I read more and more articles > saying that we reached a point where Python 3 became more popular than > Python 2, Python 3 has now enough new features to convince developers, > etc. > > Is it time to "hide" Python 2.7 from the default choice and only show > Python 3.6 *by default*? > > For example, I expect a single big [DOWNLOAD] button which would start > the download of Python 3.6 for my platform. > > If we cannot agree on hiding Python 2 by default, maybe we can at > least replace the big [DOWNLOAD] button of Python 2 with a smaller > button or replace it with a link to a different download page? > > Latest news: Django 2.0 and Pyramid 2.0 will simply drop Python 2 support. > > Victor > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list > Python-ideas@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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