Am 05.07.2010 20:48, schrieb Damjan Georgievski: >> Python-2.7 has been releases and will be the last 2.x official release of >> python. So it is time to switch to python-3.x as our /usr/bin/python and >> python-2.7 as our /usr/bin/python2. See >> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Python_Todo_List for all >> the details about how to achieve this. > > What's the rationale for making Python 3.1 the "main" /usr/bin/python? > > A great deal of python modules still don't support 3.x, there's no > WSGI standard for 3.x either so you can't make web apps (and hope to > deploy them). Even less C modules are 3.x compatible, and then even > less applications. > > And 2.7 is here to stay for a long time. > > I think it would be wiser to stay with 2.7 as the main python for now. > And maybe switch after Python 3.3 comes out. > By that time the 3.x series should have enough improvements to > motivate people to port to 3.x > > > Hello, I absolutely agree. I do not expect to happen the switch of most upstream python projects to the 3-branch within next five to twn years, if ever. python3 may be an improvement over python2 in the sense of a clean language. But that is an academical argument. We should take into account for our distribution what people and upstream projects actually use, and that is the 2- branch of python. Regards Stefan
