F23 System Wide Change: Python 3 as Default

Bohuslav Kabrda slavek at redhat.com
Fri Jun 19 06:49:37 UTC 2015


----- Original Message -----
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Bohuslav Kabrda <slavek at redhat.com> wrote:
> >> 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.
> >
> > Plus, this is also about Python packaging guidelines suggesting usage of
> > #!/usr/bin/python3 hashbang by default [1] (assuming, of course, the
> > upstream supports Python 3).
> 
> I don't see that listed in the Change, but I don't think it needs to
> be.  The packaging guidelines can be changed to that independently of
> the "default" claim.  Frankly, I think the packaging guidelines should
> be changed and in place as a prerequisite for this being approved
> anyway.

The guidelines have already been changed to say that. Please see the link that I provided in my previous mail.

> josh

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Regards,
Slavek Kabrda


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