Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 03:12:51 +1100 From: Kubilay Kocak <koobs@FreeBSD.org> To: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@FreeBSD.org>, Carmel NY <carmel_ny@outlook.com> Cc: FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>, python@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Python default versions Message-ID: <5644BA83.1070400@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <CAG=rPVckSY820KYZBsK3uxnCgkfmUWKPGby-GVuJtfUGmwVmMA@mail.gmail.com> References: <BLU437-SMTP56C777F3D65AD3CAB4556D80120@phx.gbl> <CAG=rPVckSY820KYZBsK3uxnCgkfmUWKPGby-GVuJtfUGmwVmMA@mail.gmail.com>
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On 13/11/2015 3:02 AM, Craig Rodrigues wrote: > On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 4:45 AM, Carmel NY <carmel_ny@outlook.com> 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 It's also important to remember the distinction between 'defaulting' to 3.x, and requiring all things to work with 3.x. I don't believe we'd necessarily require the latter, in requiring/wanting the former, as long as the 2.x stack remained fully supported. One of the things we'd *certainly* need before tackling this, is the official package repositories building *at least* 2.7 *and* the default 3.x version of packages. Ideally all python versions.
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