Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 08:02:54 -0800 From: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@FreeBSD.org> To: Carmel NY <carmel_ny@outlook.com> Cc: FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Python default versions Message-ID: <CAG=rPVckSY820KYZBsK3uxnCgkfmUWKPGby-GVuJtfUGmwVmMA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <BLU437-SMTP56C777F3D65AD3CAB4556D80120@phx.gbl> References: <BLU437-SMTP56C777F3D65AD3CAB4556D80120@phx.gbl>
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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
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