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On 20 July 2015 at 17:27, Jason Zaman <perfinion@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 10:39:25AM +0200, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: |
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>> On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 6:03 AM, Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o> wrote: |
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>> > I would like to hear from the other team members, yes. |
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>> I have sympathy towards those who are asking for only one Python in |
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>> stages (as in, I would be fine with that), but I very much think we |
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>> should not leave Python 3 out of generally installed systems by |
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>> default. We need to move through the transition, and increasing the |
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>> barriers to Python 3 adoption will only make that process slower. |
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>> I also feel like a voting process for this is probably not a solution. |
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> I also very much dislike shipping only python2. Having only one python |
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> is admirable and I'm all for it but if we only ship one by default it |
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> should be python3. |
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That is a nice sentiment, but unpractical. We have a lot more packages |
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that require python2, while we only have 74 that require python3. |
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While it may be possible to ship with python3 only (I haven't looked |
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at what the packages in stage3 support), users will almost certainly |
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need to install python2 when they start installing more packages. |
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But if we ship with python2 only, then most users won't need python3. |
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Those who want it, can of course simply add it. Going with python2 as |
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default simply makes more sense. |
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Cheers, |
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Ben | yngwin |
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