On Fri, 2013-07-19 at 11:24 -0400, John.Florian@xxxxxxxx wrote: > > From: nicolas.mailhot@xxxxxxxxxxx > > > > > > Le Ven 19 juillet 2013 17:04, Tomas Mraz a écrit : > > > On Fri, 2013-07-19 at 10:17 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > > > >> So while I encourage a Fedora effort to get onto Python3 by default, > > >> well before 2015, I don't think we should assume that Python2 support > > >> is definitely going to stop in 2015. > > > > > > +1 Breaking completely needlessly backwards compatibility this way is > > > really not a good idea. > > > > OTOH, it's better to give a heads-up this way (with the option to change > > shebangs as short-term workaround) than drop users cold at python2 > removal > > time (which *will* eventually come). Some people really need some > breakage > > to notice they're missing a migration. > > > Excellent point! If I were caught unaware, I'd much rather have to fix up > a bunch shebang lines and learn that I need to get going on my migration > pronto than the alternative of finding one day that python2 is just gone > where one is left with either a hurried port or downloading python2 from > external sources. The heads-up can be done before the python2 dropping by removing /usr/bin/python from python2 package. -- Tomas Mraz No matter how far down the wrong road you've gone, turn back. Turkish proverb -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel