From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Thu Nov 12 16:02:55 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4B9BA2D5AD for ; Thu, 12 Nov 2015 16:02:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from crodr001@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yk0-x234.google.com (mail-yk0-x234.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4002:c07::234]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6D11317B5 for ; Thu, 12 Nov 2015 16:02:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from crodr001@gmail.com) Received: by ykba77 with SMTP id a77so99270996ykb.2 for ; Thu, 12 Nov 2015 08:02:54 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=HJvMqisufl6qeFzHMLzNCMcLagouWaIwrZXxANzVnlE=; b=D0SCyLP6ndSgt8ESqcJ2AloP6Rg7ZWDRPUUWek9OHjUpol0gwbNPeIubHloODjDgQL 2lVZxLbp9qXNYA9TP3z1qUwmxL2gu2QaVI9D/nu8jjZi17dYBGIsc0X1WhDNrc+YiYPI iTHj9Jhdm70rphWtqvDPYRZdkkdRsaRjXWLvrvHw/GvrqGwkihsUNGUFIvwsbn5hNETX 74Y+vu8TUrrmz4Ofo7puWDTf7+5aWBiQnbjLhV5MlEYIEjNXh2FZGqNJVKLUTpH3pGP8 c2oHoNGtVxh1t7OH/Ko26fMNSvszh5tFXdeiTpm4+sWPouPRNJWaEsYRlZN7+nOc9Mmr tzaQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.129.115.139 with SMTP id o133mr15227618ywc.172.1447344174498; Thu, 12 Nov 2015 08:02:54 -0800 (PST) Sender: crodr001@gmail.com Received: by 10.37.95.9 with HTTP; Thu, 12 Nov 2015 08:02:54 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 08:02:54 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: SnNdIJ7LvHYcGZkqbAfDtqy68K4 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Python default versions From: Craig Rodrigues To: Carmel NY Cc: FreeBSD Ports Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.20 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 16:02:55 -0000 On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 4:45 AM, Carmel NY wrote: > > I was just wondering if there is any serious consideration to at least > changing the FreeBSD default version to "3.x". It's actually a lot of work to update all the Python packages to work with Python 3, since at the language level there are changes which make valid Python 2 code a syntax error in Python 3. In the Linux world, both Ubuntu and Fedora have huge efforts to make Python 3 the default. They are not done yet: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Python/3 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Python_3_as_Default Probably when one or both of those projects are done, it will be much easier for FreeBSD to change the default, since the Linux guys will have fixed a lot of the packages that FreeBSD uses. Most likely they will be done by next year. -- Craig