On 27/06/17 17:02, Dominique Leuenberger / DimStar wrote:
On Mon, 2017-06-26 at 15:26 +0200, jan matejek wrote:
Fellow openSUSists,
this has been a long time coming, and I'd now like to start the actual process of switching the default Python implementation to Python 3 in Tumbleweed.
I'd like to point to https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/ again...
"""The main barrier to a distribution switching the python command from python2 to python3 isn't breakage within the distribution, but instead breakage of private third party scripts developed by sysadmins and other users. Updating the python command to invoke python3 by default indicates that a distribution is willing to break such scripts with errors that are potentially quite confusing for users that aren't yet familiar with the backwards incompatible changes in Python 3."""
is openSUSE *REALLY* the distro that is willing to break user scripts?
This is probably the wrong question to ask, A better one probably is anyone willing to maintain python2 in openSUSE post 2020 when it goes end of life? This gives us 2.5 years to try and make the migration as smooth as possible so starting now is probably a decent idea. Users have already had 9 years to migrate I suspect if they haven't started yet there probably not going to bother until stuff starts breaking anyway, unfortunately we can't do much about users but yeah we should try and get our stuff in as good a shape as possible before doing the switch. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B