Python 3 to be default in Fedora 22
Progess on the Python3 as 'standard Python' front: Yesterday, FESCO (Fedora Steering Committee?) approved a proposal to make Python 3 (version unspecified, I presume 3.3 or 3.4) the default Python in Fedora 22 (I did not see a date anywhere). http://lwn.net/Articles/571528/ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Python_3_as_Default -- Terry Jan Reedy
On 25 Oct 2013 09:02, "Terry Reedy" <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote:
Progess on the Python3 as 'standard Python' front: Yesterday, FESCO
(Fedora Steering Committee?) approved a proposal to make Python 3 (version unspecified, I presume 3.3 or 3.4) the default Python in Fedora 22 (I did not see a date anywhere). The current release cycle is F20, so this is aiming for late 2014 (and hence will be 3.4).
http://lwn.net/Articles/571528/ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Python_3_as_Default
Note that unlike Arch, the Fedora devs currently plan to leave "/usr/bin/python" referring to Python 2 (see the "User Experience" part of the proposal). Cheers, Nick.
-- Terry Jan Reedy
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On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 01:32:36PM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote:
On 25 Oct 2013 09:02, "Terry Reedy" <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote:
http://lwn.net/Articles/571528/ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Python_3_as_Default
Note that unlike Arch, the Fedora devs currently plan to leave "/usr/bin/ python" referring to Python 2 (see the "User Experience" part of the proposal).
<nod> The tangible changes for this are just that we're hoping to only have python3, not python2 on our default LiveCD and cloud images. This has been a bit hard since many of our core packaging tools (and the large number of release engineering, package-maintainer, distro installer, etc scripts built on top of them) were written in python2. The F22 release is hoping to have a set of C libraries for those tools with both python3 and python2 bindings. That will hopefully allow us to port the user-visible tools (installer and things present on the selected images) to python3 for F22 while leaving the release-engineering and packager-oriented scripts until a later Fedora release. -Toshio
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