From owner-freebsd-python@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 30 12:10:43 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: python@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85C73106566B for ; Sat, 30 Oct 2010 12:10:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jsa.bsd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vw0-f54.google.com (mail-vw0-f54.google.com [209.85.212.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A99F8FC15 for ; Sat, 30 Oct 2010 12:10:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws12 with SMTP id 12so1221332vws.13 for ; Sat, 30 Oct 2010 05:10:42 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:sender:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=s64ue6tnDuxzTTkUZqCk8+ZkUweAOByMbgqP/xKQAbM=; b=pkh9SKSTl/NFhm/wmjb67tO1+bofmMlL5+3kFEjiMNf9UZQDkqeBXbmco7RJ4dif0N g6RqKtcN254XlrWSUrxwnw7wbGcWdDLDkIoTWdpU/4KYq9vGcf0qpqsXXM5Lc5KQzC4V emR2FosxOzoYPUr0xtU9bC2QlA+gYQiMJdN2A= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=WdpYr55GUhJi8+sOHno8rETH4GJb8GRvsyVVEEzjAXPvuHSUIDk7XKzEPaoe3X8yab EWBR/xi+QEVx2XgTfexQrdNYyYcSRF/oOIfU5tf4KUe9zSeLCyrK8vIbczAjOc/MxWHg PUQoeP95rkK14oyGLD0KpyZK1n70zhisx2Xr8= Received: by 10.224.193.195 with SMTP id dv3mr5847143qab.180.1288439101625; Sat, 30 Oct 2010 04:45:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pazuzu.wickedmachine.net (tn-67-232-95-191.dhcp.embarqhsd.net [67.232.95.191]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id v20sm1816921vbw.19.2010.10.30.04.44.59 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 30 Oct 2010 04:45:00 -0700 (PDT) Sender: "Joseph S. Atkinson" Message-ID: <4CCC0545.1020001@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 07:45:09 -0400 From: "Joseph S. Atkinson" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.11) Gecko/20101023 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: python@FreeBSD.org X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Default Python 2.7 X-BeenThere: freebsd-python@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD-specific Python issues List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 12:10:43 -0000 Is there any plan to move python to 2.7 for the 8.2/9.0 releases? From looking (and running locally) it appears "feature safe", being similar to how 2.6 was done. i.e. that 2.6 was the same as 2.5 with backported 3.0 features, while 2.7 is thus 2.6 with backported 3.1 features. Additionally, (and I have already had to discuss this with one python based project's upstream) you may want to consider creating symlinks from the default python to `python2`. Some linux distros are starting to move to python3 and projects are hardcoding `python2` to compensate. I am not subscribed to a list, so please insure you cc me in any replies.