Multirelease effort: Moving to Python 3

[Bohuslav Kabrda]

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> On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 11:24:22AM -0400, Bohuslav Kabrda wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > as a new Fedora Python maintainer, I have set myself a goal of
> > moving Fedora to Python 3 as a default.
> That's a worthy goal!
> 
> > From packaging point of view, this will probably require:
> > 1) Renaming python package to python2
> > 2) Renaming python3 package to python
> > 3) Switching the %{?with_python3} conditionals in specfiles to
> > %{?with_python2} (we will probably create a script to automate this, at
> > least partially)
> 
> But that seems like pointless busywork and churn. Sure, when python3
> is ubiquitous, those checks can be dropped or reversed... But right
> now it would be better to focus on actual python3 versions of all
> packages — we're not there yet.
> 

Yes, current efforts should be directed to porting for Python 3, the packaging points I mentioned will really be the very last step.
Thanks,
Slavek.

> Zbyszek
> --
> they are not broken. they are refucktored
>                            -- alxchk

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Regards,
Bohuslav "Slavek" Kabrda.