Re: [Fedora-packaging] clarification: python2 modules allowed to go into python2-foo?
I agree with what Toshio has said. We're wedded to the existing naming
for a host of reasons.
As for the flag day Toshio postulates when we pull a lever and switch
from python2 to python3, this is something that keeps me awake at night
sadly. I know many of the python packages I'm involved with will simply
not work with a python3 interpreter without a significant porting effort
(then there is the issue of backward support for python2 in those same
packages). This is especially relevant to Python modules written in C
(e.g. CPython) of which there are quite a few.
So far the only relief from this dilemma has been the observation that
we've been postponing the day of reckoning because the pain threshold is
so high. In other words I don't have to deal with it today.
All of this is to reinforce the point that anything which might cause
via whatever means python2 code to mistakenly execute in a python3
environment would be disastrous and must be carefully avoided.
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