On Fri, 2013-07-19 at 11:24 -0400, John.Florian(a)dart.biz wrote:
> From: nicolas.mailhot(a)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.
The heads-up can be done before the python2 dropping by
removing /usr/bin/python from python2 package.
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Tomas Mraz
No matter how far down the wrong road you've gone, turn back.
Turkish proverb