From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Sat Nov 14 13:56:00 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 43D25A2E438 for ; Sat, 14 Nov 2015 13:56:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from crodr001@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yk0-x233.google.com (mail-yk0-x233.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4002:c07::233]) (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 0241C1F0B for ; Sat, 14 Nov 2015 13:56:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from crodr001@gmail.com) Received: by ykdv3 with SMTP id v3so185686331ykd.0 for ; Sat, 14 Nov 2015 05:55:59 -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=RwmCenSikUs7RxOMr10XFkQyq/AG0CSzWHdYnn6ROuY=; b=N+bm4v7hD4dXKDx2RaxrqerIhu2RJKdPYwl8CVvdmtDDNX2cRFlgJD0klgtQg+FO7a qf/yyZiYHnivrv1Vx63X5tfcPl2vFtyra39nFo3LaOGT0+5zl6C0948sPWkmhPSi9JnM EghvLzptjWCqHJkA+i8tZDkalKjmH9W0K9EJS5j7daC5Mhqt9j7UL418kaoI2JKeJPSt GpWcqkWJqTCDlM2XeXR2lXJwJzUcJt03/iopTt1eZ42T/KNqCUiE+FWnSvGu6bloDnPN FZxcBPIzE5pc0ZoSJn3ohyAX0QEQ7YSwu7YXD2/RSINzFUDvkeLTnGRWpdGbWy7k+dy9 7rIA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.13.250.69 with SMTP id k66mr26754859ywf.107.1447509359094; Sat, 14 Nov 2015 05:55:59 -0800 (PST) Sender: crodr001@gmail.com Received: by 10.37.95.9 with HTTP; Sat, 14 Nov 2015 05:55:59 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2015 05:55:59 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: IgVClHuGxHNeUtSU9ToIPJ3zUSI 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: Sat, 14 Nov 2015 13:56:00 -0000 On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 8:02 AM, Craig Rodrigues wrote: > 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. > > The Fedora Project is having a Fedora Activity Day (FAD) from Nov. 14 - 15 to port Python packages to Python 3. You can find details how to join here: https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/help-port-python-packages-to-python-3/ -- Craig