On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 10:42:15PM +0000, Jeremy Stanley wrote: > On 2018-04-24 22:39:48 +0200 (+0200), Andrea Bolognani wrote: > > To give a concrete example, Fedora switched to using Python 3 > > as the default several releases ago[1]; despite that, Python 2 > > is still available in the archive, and will get pulled in when > > installing software that (regrettably) hasn't been ported yet. > > > > The same is true for FreeBSD and, I believe, Ubuntu. I'm not > > familiar with the approach other distributions and OS are > > taking, but I would expect it to be fairly similar. > [...] > > Rumor has it that RHEL 8 will be dropping Python 2 while (finally!) > adding Python 3. Much of that is fueled by the Deprecated > Functionality[*] section of the RHEL 7.5 Release Notes wherein it > states, "Python 2 will be replaced with Python 3 in the next Red Hat > Enterprise Linux (RHEL) major release." Two paragraphs below the text you quoted: > Note that Python 3 is available to RHEL customers, and supported > on RHEL, as a part of Red Hat Software Collections. So you could say that RHEL is taking the approach described above - having a transitional period where both versions are available side by side - with the only difference being that Python 3 is currently not delivered through the same channel as Python 2. -- Andrea Bolognani <eof@kiyuko.org> Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected.
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