Re: a plea for python 2

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Am 14.12.2011 23:24, schrieb Evan Martin:
> What I don't understand is why you're manually patching upstream
> software to rewrite references from /usr/bin/python to
> /usr/bin/python2.  This sort of forking is exactly the sort of
> divergence (like how Ubuntu modified their GTK to add their own
> specific hooks) that I was fleeing from when I came to Arch.

There's no forking here. Python 2 is end-of-life, python 3 is current.
Applications that set a 'python' shebang, but require 'python2' are
*broken*, we *fix* them.

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