Multirelease effort: Moving to Python 3

Marcela Mašláňová mmaslano at redhat.com
Fri Jul 19 06:20:02 UTC 2013


On 07/19/2013 05:44 AM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
>
> On Jul 18, 2013 5:42 PM, "Michael Catanzaro" <mike.catanzaro at gmail.com
> <mailto:mike.catanzaro at gmail.com>> wrote:
>  >
>  > On Thu, 2013-07-18 at 09:53 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
>  > > /usr/bin/python should refer to python2 --
>  > > http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/  I'd be -1 to changing this
>  > But when python2 is no longer installed by default, surely you want to
>  > get a python prompt when you type 'python'?
>
> Yes, and for a long time, I'm going to want to get a python2 prompt.
> Which means installing the package for python2, not having python3 start
> on that case.
>
>
>
Why do you want to use old version as default? That's very conservative 
approach for Fedora ;-)
Upstream plans to support it until 2015 (maybe little longer). Fedora 
needs to be prepared for such step, so it's the right time to start 
working on it.

Marcela


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