[arch-general] [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] Python-3.x transition with python-2.7 update

[Stefan Husmann]

Am 05.07.2010 20:48, schrieb Damjan Georgievski:
>> Python-2.7 has been releases and will be the last 2.x official release of
>> python.  So it is time to switch to python-3.x as our /usr/bin/python and
>> python-2.7 as our /usr/bin/python2.  See
>> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Python_Todo_List for all
>> the details about how to achieve this.
> 
> What's the rationale for making Python 3.1 the "main" /usr/bin/python?
> 
> A great deal of python modules still don't support 3.x, there's no
> WSGI standard for 3.x either so you can't make web apps (and hope to
> deploy them). Even less C modules are 3.x compatible, and then even
> less applications.
> 
> And 2.7 is here to stay for a long time.
> 
> I think it would be wiser to stay with 2.7 as the main python for now.
> And maybe switch after Python 3.3 comes out.
> By that time the 3.x series should have enough improvements to
> motivate people to port to 3.x
> 
> 
> 
Hello,

I absolutely agree. I do not expect to happen the switch of most upstream python 
projects to the 3-branch within next five to twn years, if ever.

python3 may be an improvement over python2 in the sense of a clean language. 
But that is an academical argument. We should take into account for our distribution 
what people and upstream projects actually use, and that is the 2- branch of python.

Regards Stefan