Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 15:00:05 -0700 From: Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org> To: Guido Falsi <madpilot@FreeBSD.org>, "D.-C. M." <my-roaming-data@outlook.com>, "kde@FreeBSD.org" <kde@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "ports@FreeBSD.org" <ports@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: py27-qt5-core / Py36-qt5-core Message-ID: <8b5a9d2d-3373-f164-9a1d-e3acf19e1ec9@nomadlogic.org> In-Reply-To: <c600a76b-b01c-6a65-c0c4-ecb2bd7ff105@FreeBSD.org> References: <AM5PR0901MB1139637F840990FAB019C890A9AC0@AM5PR0901MB1139.eurprd09.prod.outlook.com> <c600a76b-b01c-6a65-c0c4-ecb2bd7ff105@FreeBSD.org>
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On 03/27/2018 14:49, Guido Falsi wrote: > On 03/27/18 22:44, D.-C. M. wrote: >> Hello, >> > Hi! > >> >> >> At this moment, it is impossible to build side by side py27-qt5-core and >> py36-qt5-core. >> >> >> >> There is a collison on /usr/local/bin/pyuic >> >> >> >> This is annoying… Python 27 is still the default, but become quite old now. >> > I'm not a python expert, but I understand that python 2.7 and python 3 > are two slightly different languages not fully compatible with each other. > > I also understand(but have not gone into depth about this) that there is > some resistance to python 3, with many developers being reluctant to > move to version 3, for whatever reason(I imagine it's language design > choices, but I really don't know) > > I'm stating this because it means such incompatibilities are not going > away easily. It's not just a ports system problem, but an actual python > ecosystem problem. > > Too say it in other words, python 2.7 isn't really just "the old > version" and python 3 is not just "the new version". They have parallel > lifes. I'm not %100 sure that's really an accurate assessment of the slow uptake in Python3. Regardless, the clock is ticking on the 2.x codebase as it is reaching EOL status in 2020: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0373/ Hopefully a solid deadline (which has already been pushed back) will motivate developers to accelerate the task of migrating to py3 sooner rather than later. -pete -- Pete Wright pete@nomadlogic.org @nomadlogicLA
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