Re: [gentoo-dev] Support for Python 3

[Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@gentoo.org>]

Le lundi 25 octobre 2010 à 19:44 +0530, Nirbheek Chauhan a écrit :
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 7:07 PM, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
> <Arfrever@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > I would like to suggest that setting Python 3.1 as main active version of Python be officially
> > supported and recommended for Gentoo developers since 2010-12-01. Majority of packages supporting
> > only Python 2.* have been prepared to work correctly in situation when Python 3.* is set as main
> > active version of Python. I would like to encourage other developers to work on fixing remaining
> > packages.
> >
> 
> I do not think this is a useful expenditure of developer time. There's
> absolutely no hurry to start using Python 3 since 99.9% of upstreams
> do not have officially supported ports yet. We can revisit this when
> the upstreams of half the packages in-tree start using Python 3 by
> default (this will probably take more than a year).
> 

to reply to you and Fabio, note that Arfrever is not suggesting you
start using python3.

He suggests you have it as your default python interpreter which does
not mean applications will magically start using it.

It will however allow easier spotting of application that have not been
prepared by ebuilds to run correctly  with /usr/bin/python
or /usr/bin/env python being python3 by default.

The fix is generally easy, lots of gnome ebuilds have been fixed for
gnome 2.32 and we expect the situation to be fully handled when it will
be unmasked.

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Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@gentoo.org>
Gentoo