On 27. 06. 19 20:13, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Thu, 2019-06-27 at 17:33 +0200, Miro Hrončok wrote:
There, you are correct. However, would we want "python" to mean Python 2
forever?
I don't honestly see the *harm* in this. That is what it has always
meant up until now, after all. That is probably what people expect it
to mean by this point. I always read "python" as "Python 2".
What is the benefit of this change, exactly?
The benefit is that people will eventually stop thinking this.
"python" (Python 2) will be unmaintained and dead couple weeks after Fedora 31
is released. As the Python maintainers, we think that "python" being Python 2
brings unfortunate expectations - that it is "the default Python".
We spent years and years trying to mark Python 2 as the "legacy" thing, but as
long as we invoke Python 2 when users run "python" we cannot really expect that
to happen. I believe that we should not run unsupported Python interpreter when
users run "python".
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