----- Original Message ----- > On Thu, Jun 11, 2015, at 04:40 PM, Adam Miller wrote: > > > I think the point that Colin is trying to make is that while Atomic > > Host does not depend on Ansible being installed, it is a very popular > > utility used to remotely manage (potentially large) sets of Atomic > > Hosts. > > Right, see > https://github.com/eparis/kubernetes-ansible > as well as > https://lists.projectatomic.io/projectatomic-archives/atomic-devel/2015-April/msg00027.html > > > Also, while Ansible is agentless it does require the remote > > machine to have python2 installed. Therefore, Fedora Atomic Host is > > likely to continue to ship Python 2.x as a part of it's default > > installation as it's in the best interest of a large population of > > it's user base. > > Right. Ah, ok, that's what I needed to hear :) > > So for the time being, the switch to python3 as default for Atomic > > Host might not be an option or at the very least will be non-trivial > > in terms of what is in the best interest of the users. > > This could be read in multiple ways, so to restate this (again for > the Nth time, not sure why I'm having trouble getting the point across), > I am just saying that the end result will be *both* versions. > > Again: *both* versions. Python 2 *and* Python 3. > > Everything could be ported, except Python 2 would still be installed > even if no package on the host depended on it explicitly. > > (Hmm, I should propose a patch to add it to the manifest, > right now it's pulled in indirectly) Yeah, that'd be very good. I'd probably also advise to add a comment explaining why it's there. Just to make sure that people who come across are aware of it. > Which is a space increase, but we'll just live with it. > > (I'm not the only person who works on Atomic Host so don't > take my opinions here as entirely representative or final, but I'm > stating my opinions based on current resourcing) Thanks. > For how long would Python 2 be installed? I don't know > but the conservative answer would probably be measured in > units of major versions. -- Regards, Slavek Kabrda -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
