F23 System Wide Change: Python 3 as Default

[Robert Kuska]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kevin Fenzi" <kevin at scrye.com>
> To: devel at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2015 9:11:36 PM
> Subject: Re: F23 System Wide Change: Python 3 as Default
> 
> Greetings.
> 
> In today's FESCo meeting we had a lot of discussion about this change.
> 
> You can read the meeting yourself in:
> http://meetbot-raw.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2015-06-17/fesco.2015-06-17-18.00.log.html#l-109
> 
> Speaking only for myself here:
> 
> I am very happy we are moving more things to python3 and I appreciate
> it's a lot of work and effort. :)
> 
> I don't think we should use the word 'default' in this change unless we
> define really what that means. It seems like it means different things
> to different people.
> 
> It would be great to come up with an "finished" state for this, but I
> don't know what it would really be. When all our tools used to build
> Fedora are ported? When no python2 depending packages are in repos?
> When python2 is no longer shipped?
> 

It is written in a scope what does 'default' stands for.
Also from a additional porting POV (packages which ain't covered by scope
and are python2 only) it is important to have stated that the default python 
for Fedora is python3 as it will help (a bit at least) as leverage for those 
who are reluctant to port their codebase to python3.

After we get this change through we may focus on additional porting in next fedora 
releases (new system wide change [if needed] for fedora packaging tools for example) 
and again, use the already accepted fact about python3 being the default fedora python.

>From my POV it is very important to keep the 'default' in the change name.

My 2 cents.

> kevin
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