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Den 2012-07-31 18:40:17 skrev Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o>: |
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> On 31 July 2012 20:14, Nikolaj Sjujskij <sterkrig@×××××××.com> wrote: |
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>> Den 2012-07-31 16:09:10 skrev Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o>: |
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>>> On 31 July 2012 15:11, Nikolaj Sjujskij <sterkrig@×××××××.com> wrote: |
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>>>> Den 2012-07-30 18:05:38 skrev Jesus Rivero (Neurogeek) |
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>>>> <neurogeek@g.o>: |
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>>>> [...] As far as I remember 3.2 was added to default PYTHON_TARGETS |
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>>>> value |
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>>>> exactly because of "stage3 has Python 3 by default". |
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>>> Otherwise known as "fix the symptoms, not the root problem"... |
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>> I don't see much of a problem there. Current situation is kinda right |
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>> in my |
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>> opinion, since it smooths future upgrade to Python 3 (which I consider |
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>> inevitable). |
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> So, because at some undetermined point in the future it would be |
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> smoother to migrate to python-3 as default this way, you want to |
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> burden the great majority of users now with what is for all intents |
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> and purposes to them a useless number of multiple, slotted python |
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> versions? |
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> I see that as a problem. For the great majority of users python:2.7 is |
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> currently, and for the foreseeable future, the best choice. There is a |
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> great number of packages and libraries that don't work with python-3, |
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> and just a handful that don't work with python-2. |
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> It also leads to all kinds of spurious bugs, such as people who have |
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> 2.7 set as their default interpreter, but have not removed and masked |
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>> =3.0, so end up with updates, but forget to switch their py3 |
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> interpreter to the latest version. |
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> Until such time this situation becomes radically different, we should |
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> make sure users have the best experience, which is python:2.7 by |
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> default, and python-3 only if they explicitly choose to install it. |
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That's a valid point, and I don't object if by default there will be no |
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Python 3 in Gentoo installation. Provided it'd be accomplished by tweaking |
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dependencies of @system without `dev-lang/python3` weirdness. But I regard |
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current situation as quite logical and acceptable too. |
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