The looming Python 3(000) monster
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Fri Dec 5 21:51:49 UTC 2008
Jon Ciesla wrote:
>
>> Is there a plan for how yum is going to upgrade itself?
>
> Should it not execute from the 2.6 version on disk and use rpm to alter
> the copy on disk to use 3.0, so that the next run will use 3.0? It'll
> require python 3.0, so it'll be in the same execution.
>
> In short, shouldn't it work just like it does now?
Theoretically yes, but historically python's habit of incompatible
changes have caused problems especially when things were done in the
wrong order or a system was interrupted before the complete set was
installed and then couldn't fix itself.
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Les Mikesell
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