The transition is indeed smooth, as least for me. I am just worrying that maybe most python utilities will remain using python2 for a rather long time. Considering the incompatibility in the fundamental print function/statement, I seriously doubt the number of python2 packages that can run under python3 without any modification. Most python programmers are clearly not so interested in the bleeding-edge technologies. That's what makes me frustrated as an Arch user. Best Regards,
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 02:11:56 -0500 From: Isaac Dupree <ml@isaac.cedarswampstudios.org> Subject: Re: [arch-general] python3 thoughts To: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general@archlinux.org> Message-ID: <4CDCE8BC.4080107@isaac.cedarswampstudios.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
On 11/12/10 01:51, Auguste Pop wrote:
... I hope python3 won't die this way, so that all the previous efforts in transition to python3 will not go in vain. Maybe we just took the transitional leap too early when nobody is ready except us.
As you note, "nobody is ready except us" -- we are ready -- the pain is not very much. On the flip side, the little pain that we do feel is a really valuable offering to the other more conservative distros: they get to see how it was for us and what the biggest pain points are in practice.
You're also (I think?) making a good point that, at least where upstream projects written in python can run on python3, we as packagers should proactively package them to do so. We should be conscious if we're letting them languish in the doldrums of 2-ness untended.
-Isaac