Am 16.01.19 um 15:48 schrieb Rex Dieter:
Reindl Harald wrote:
>> I disagreed removing it in fedora was a good idea, the same holds here.
>
> well, the real problem is Python itself and using it for important
> system tools! what happens when Python4 comes up
Simple (imho).
Always treat /usr/bin/python as legacy python2
python4 (when it comes) will be /usr/bin/python4 just like how python3 is
/usr/bin/python3 today. No confusion, no ambiguity, no breakage.
or don't use programming languages where it takes decades until
everything works on a new version
"Always treat /usr/bin/python as legacy python2" ends in you have
pyhton2-only code forever until pyhton2 does no longer get security
updates and goes completly away from the distribution and in the worst
case probably new code is still written only running with python2
so all you do is take a technical debt and hping somebody else is paying
it back when you are gone
if PHP would act that way i simply would have ported the work of the
past 16 years to a different programming language long ago but there was
no need because i can't imagine any code which can't be easily fixed so
that it works on 7.3 even when it was originally written in 2002