Re: Multirelease effort: Moving to Python 3

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Daniel P. Berrange (berrange@xxxxxxxxxx) said: 
> I don't think we're anywhere near the point in time where such an
> approach is worth the pain it will inflict on people. As above,
> I'm pretty sceptical that maintainence of Python2 is actually going
> to stop in 2015, as I think there are too many people and/or
> organizations who will find they have reasons for wanting to stick
> on python2 for a long time. Maybe I'll be proved wrong on this in
> time, but I doubt it, as there's far too many prior examples of
> people/companies sticking with ancient software versions because
> the cost of maintaining them is less than the cost of porting
> them.

Especially since I do believe there are large software infrastructures even
more tied to python2 than Fedora is with yum/anaconda/etc.  (Hellooooooo,
OpenStack!)

Bill

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