[arch-dev-public] [RFC] Python 3.3.0 and PEP 394

Stéphane Gaudreault stephane at archlinux.org
Fri Sep 14 09:25:40 EDT 2012


Le 2012-09-14 09:19, Allan McRae a écrit :
> On 14/09/12 23:14, Alexander Rødseth wrote:
>> If this feels to un-Arch-like, a "clean cut" alternative would be to
>> drop python2 completely and move everything that has to do with
>> python2 to AUR, only keeping python3 and just prepend all python
>> package names with "python-".
> python2 is not being dropped.
>

I think it is good a good practice to try to move as much as possible to 
python 3, but python 2 will remain supported for some years. As a point 
of reference, upstream will provide maintenance releases for python 2 
until at least 2015.

Stéphane


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