Multirelease effort: Moving to Python 3

Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net
Fri Jul 19 15:16:03 UTC 2013


Le Ven 19 juillet 2013 17:04, Tomas Mraz a écrit :
> On Fri, 2013-07-19 at 10:17 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:

>> So while I encourage a Fedora effort to get onto Python3 by default,
>> well before 2015, I don't think we should assume that Python2 support
>> is definitely going to stop in 2015.
>
> +1 Breaking completely needlessly backwards compatibility this way is
> really not a good idea.

OTOH, it's better to give a heads-up this way (with the option to change
shebangs as short-term workaround) than drop users cold at python2 removal
time (which *will* eventually come). Some people really need some breakage
to notice they're missing a migration.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot



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