----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ben Cotton" <bcotton@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2019 10:09:58 PM > Subject: Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal: Python means Python3 > > On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 2:52 PM Dan Book <grinnz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > As an outsider to the Python community, not having any binary or package > > that responds to the expected name "python" would be a disaster. > > > Can you expand on that? As I understand it, most things that are > calling for "python" now are expecting that to be "python2". So when > it becomes "python3", they'll break anyway. So why perpetuate a > pattern that's not future-proof (for some values of "proof")? Depends on what you mean by calling "python". The biggest portion of python code floating around would be compatible with either both python2 and 3, or only with python3, with a few exceptions. > > -- > Ben Cotton > He / Him / His > Fedora Program Manager > Red Hat > TZ=America/Indiana/Indianapolis > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > -- Regards, Charalampos Stratakis Software Engineer Python Maintenance Team, Red Hat _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
