On 1 October 2015 at 18:43, <paul.hermeneu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Python 3 has venv in the kit. Is there a reason users should get the > virtualenv add-on?
Both can be used; I wrote about virtualenv because it’s the tried-and-true solution (and is it guaranteed in all Linux distros anyway?) On 1 October 2015 at 19:02, Stefan Behnel <stefan...@behnel.de> wrote: > Chris Warrick schrieb am 01.10.2015 um 18:26: >> The Nikola developers decided to deprecate Python 2.7 support. > > I wonder why it took the Nikola project so long to take that decision. > Python 3.3 came out almost exactly three(!) years ago and seems to have all > major features that they would require. Nikola's PyPI page claims support > of Python 3.3 for just about as long, since version 5.4 or so, which means > that all of their dependencies were already available back then. > > It's a different thing for *libraries* that Python 2.x users still depend > on, but for an *application* that has all its (necessary) dependencies > available in Python 3.x, I can't see a general reason to keep supporting > both language versions. > > Stefan We did it now because it all started with frustration with 2.7 [0]. Also, doing it back in 2012/2013 would be problematic, because back then not all Linux distros had an easily installable Python 3 stack (and RHEL 7 still doesn’t have one in the default repos) [0]: http://ralsina.me/weblog/posts/floss-decision-making-in-action.html -- Chris Warrick <https://chriswarrick.com/> PGP: 5EAAEA16 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list