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On Friday 25 March 2016 10:03:34 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On 24/03/2016 19:19, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > On Thursday 24 March 2016 11:54:03 Dale wrote: |
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> >> I'm not sure if this has changed but I think it used to be recommended |
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> >> not to set Python 3 stuff to active, at the time anyway. That may have |
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> >> changed. I read that either here or on -dev a good while back. May |
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> >> want to see what others think on this or it could be that everything |
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> >> you |
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> >> use works fine that way. |
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> > |
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> > I saw that too, and I've always been sure to eselect python to 2.7, but |
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> > for a long time now the installation CD has come with 3.3 or 3.4 set, |
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> > so I assume it's okay to eselect 3.4 nowadays. |
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> It's probably not safe, python2 and python3 are basically different |
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> languages, not really compatible. Out there in the wild, there are still |
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> more python apps not migrated to use python3 than have been migrated. |
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> A user has 2 choices: |
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> - set python2 as default and configure packages that can use python3 to |
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> use it |
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> - set python3 as default and configure packages that requires python2 to |
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> use it |
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> Which method you use depends entirely on what packages you use. |
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But Gentoo has two python versions set: a python 2 and a python 3. I assume |
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that ebuilds specify which version they need, so the default is rarely used. |
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In that case it won't matter which is set as default. |
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Rgds |
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Peter |
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