> From: nicolas.mailhot@laposte.net
>
>
> Le Ven 19 juillet 2013 17:04, Tomas Mraz a écrit :
> > On Fri, 2013-07-19 at 10:17 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>
> >> So while I encourage a Fedora effort to get onto Python3
by default,
> >> well before 2015, I don't think we should assume that Python2
support
> >> is definitely going to stop in 2015.
> >
> > +1 Breaking completely needlessly backwards compatibility this
way is
> > really not a good idea.
>
> OTOH, it's better to give a heads-up this way (with the option to
change
> shebangs as short-term workaround) than drop users cold at python2
removal
> time (which *will* eventually come). Some people really need some
breakage
> to notice they're missing a migration.
Excellent point! If I were caught unaware, I'd
much rather have to fix up a bunch shebang lines and learn that I need
to get going on my migration pronto than the alternative of finding one
day that python2 is just gone where one is left with either a hurried port
or downloading python2 from external sources.
--
John Florian