On 27. 06. 19 16:02, stan via devel wrote:
On Thu, 27 Jun 2019 12:32:26 +0200
Miro Hrončok <mhroncok(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> On 26. 06. 19 20:07, Adam Williamson wrote:
>> On Wed, 2019-06-26 at 13:57 -0400, Ben Cotton wrote:
>>>
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Python_means_Python3
>>>
>>> == Summary ==
>>> In package and command names, "Python" will mean "Python
3".
>>>
>>> Users installing and running Python or Python packages without
>>> specifying a version will get Python 3.
>>>
>>> Running <code>python</code> will run
<code>python3</code>.
>>
>> Oh, man. I thought we'd decided against this in the past?
>
> We did. Circumstances changed.
>
>> I'm worried
>> about the cost/benefit ratio on such a change.
>
> What worries you do most about "the cost"?
Wouldn't this mean that when python4 is released, there is a replay of
the python2 -> python3 transition experience?
No, we keep everything called python3, we just provide the "python" name.
With python2 -> python3, one of the problems was that everything was just called
"python" before. We are not proposing to start doing that again. All packages
still need to eb called python3-foo, ale package still need to use python3-foo
dependencies and all packages still need to invoke "python3" explicitly.
If Python 4 ever happens, it's going to be a problem one way or another, this
doesn't make it nay more complicated.
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