On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 10:45 AM, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de> wrote:
On Tuesday 2016-11-01 14:51, Robert Schweikert wrote:
You can look at it this way, currently we have stuff with "python" and "python3" and we all know python really means python2. But at some point in the future python3 will become the default, does that mean that python3 turns into python and what is now python turns into python2. If that is the case the confusion and ripples will be big [...] All of this can be avoided by simply adding the version number now when we go through a transition
The Python people recognized with the python3 rollout that you cannot have huge incompatible generations anymore without harming the project. So I would like to believe in my vision that it won't be necessary to have multiple concurrent python versions in the future -- just like perl5 has demonstrated for some 10+ years in (open)SUSE. [That's something the Ruby devs should look into as well, hint hint.]
You are still talking about renaming all the python3-foo packages to python4-foo, probably in 4 or 5 years. That is what I am hoping to avoid. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org