[Python-Dev] Python 3 to be default in Fedora 22

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 01:32:36PM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> 
> On 25 Oct 2013 09:02, "Terry Reedy" <tjreedy at 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
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 198 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20131025/e338db8f/attachment.sig>