[Python-Dev] Migrating to Python 3: the python 3 install issue (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Wed Oct 7 06:33:46 EDT 2015

On 4 October 2015 at 03:49, Christian Tismer <tismer at stackless.com> wrote:

Great, that this finally happens.

I think this was a silent revolution, initiated by nagging people, distros and larger companies about how mega-out Python2 is, until they finally started to believe it ;-)

While that was part of it (at least initially), the main impediment on the Linux front turned out to be the sheer amount of work involved, and the number of different projects impacted (without even counting the upstream projects that had already added Python 3 support of their own accord). This meant the employee time investment from Canonical, Red Hat and anyone else that contributed to distro package porting wasn't just in development effort - a fair bit of it was in the politics of getting primarily C/C++ projects that happened to have some Python components to accept the migration patches (even while the developers and other users of those projects were still running Python 2 based distributions themselves), as well as in revising distro packaging policies to mandate Python 3 support for new projects.

Cheers, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia

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