On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Ray Rashif <schiv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 20 October 2010 07:25, Norbert Zeh <nzeh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> With the python upgrade from 2.7 to 3.1, I ran into the following snag. >> gitosis from AUR depends on python and setuptools. Now, python = >> python3.1 now and setuptools installs in the python2.7 library tree. >> This was easy enough to fix, by simply replacing python with python2 in >> the gitosis PKGBUILD. However, I would expect that python2 will >> disappear completely somewhere down the road. What then? Moreover, >> being a purist, I would like to avoid having two python versions >> installed on my machine. So what's the deal with python3.1 and >> setuptools? Is the procedure for installing python packages different >> under 3.1 than under the old 2.x series, and there simply are no >> setuptools any more? If that's the case, I guess it's the >> responsibility of package maintainers to migrate to the setup used in >> python3.1. If setuptools is still what is needed in python3.1, >> shouldn't there now be two packages setuptools and setuptools2 that >> install in the library trees of python3.1 and python2.7, respectively? >> (I'm happy to file a bug report if this is indeed a bug.) > > Python 3 should be using distribute [1] instead of setuptools. Either > way, you don't need to worry. Most software still require Python 2, > and by the time we do drop python2, everything should be working. Well if you're still around in like 2019 when python2 disappears, we might have problems, but I wouldn't hold your breath. -Dan
