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Chances are exceedingly good that Arch package maintainers will be checking their Python applications and updating them to use /usr/bin/python2 if they don't ru
by Eil 16y ago
Chances are exceedingly good that Arch package maintainers will be checking their Python applications and updating them to use /usr/bin/python2 if they don't run under Python 3. Actually, this should have already happened since the change has apparently been in testing for awhile.
- patd 16y agoI'm not really familiar with what Arch package maintainers do but aren't package maintainer mainly packager and not coders ? I imagine that someone could easily be packaging 10 Python apps or libraries. He can't be upgrading all that code to Python 3 as it is not always a trivial task and would require a lot of work and constant patching if the developing team keeps working with Python 2.X But overall, I think this is a good way to push developers to upgrade or at least prepare more to move to Python 3.
- nixme 16y agoYou're misunderstanding. Arch is still shipping Python 2.7 with the python2 package. So package maintainers don't need to rewrite upstream code if it's not compatible with Python 3; they just need to update dependencies and set paths to point to the /usr/bin/python2 binary.