The transition is indeed smooth, as least for me. I am just worrying that maybe most python utilities will remain using python2 for a rather long time. Considering the incompatibility in the fundamental print function/statement, I seriously doubt the number of python2 packages that can run under python3 without any modification. Most python programmers are clearly not so interested in the bleeding-edge technologies. That's what makes me frustrated as an Arch user. Best Regards, > Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 02:11:56 -0500 > From: Isaac Dupree <ml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: [arch-general] python3 thoughts > To: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Message-ID: <4CDCE8BC.4080107@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > > On 11/12/10 01:51, Auguste Pop wrote: >> ... >> I hope python3 won't die this way, so that all the previous efforts in >> transition to python3 will not go in vain. Maybe we just took the >> transitional leap too early when nobody is ready except us. > > As you note, "nobody is ready except us" -- we are ready -- the pain is > not very much. On the flip side, the little pain that we do feel is a > really valuable offering to the other more conservative distros: they > get to see how it was for us and what the biggest pain points are in > practice. > > You're also (I think?) making a good point that, at least where upstream > projects written in python can run on python3, we as packagers should > proactively package them to do so. We should be conscious if we're > letting them languish in the doldrums of 2-ness untended. > > -Isaac > >
