Multirelease effort: Moving to Python 3

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 12:53:20PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-07-19 at 10:17 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> 
> > Far better to encourage people to explicitly use /usr/bin/python2 and
> > /usr/bin/python3 explicitly and discourage any use of plain /usr/bin/python
> 
> Note the GNOME discussion here:
> 
> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2012-November/msg00005.html
> 
> One ugly part is that Debian Wheezy does not have "python2".  That
> combined with the Arch Linux people who made /usr/bin/python = python3
> is a terrible mess for people who just want random portable scripts.
> 
> For GNOME we decided to just try to ensure python2 always exists:
> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2012-November/msg00017.html
> 
<nod> These two concerns were reasons that PEP394 was written.

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/#rationale

and CPython2's install was changed to create the python2 symlink:
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/#application-to-the-cpython-reference-interpreter

which should make it into Debian at some point.

-Toshio
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