Re: Python and python3 as separate runtime systems

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

* Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com>, 2010-05-26, 17:43:
> I think users who don't care about Python 3 yet, should be able to have
> systems that don't pull any Python 3 elements on by accident.  Python 3 
> is primarily of interest to developers right now and most users won't 
> care to have it.
>
> It is very unusual for code to be able to run unmodified in both Python 
> 2 and Python 3.
>
> I think it makes sense for them to be kept separate at runtime.
>
> This would mean separate python-foo and python3-foo binaries where both 
> are supported from the same source.
>
> It would mean that binaries should not depend on both Python 2 and 
> Python 3 interpreters.
>
> I means that the support tools for Python 3 should run in Python 3

Seconded.

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Jakub Wilk

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