Re: Will rtupdate be used for python 2 --> python 3 transition?
On 29 October 2013 02:22, Steve M. Robbins <steve@sumost.ca> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The Debian Python Policy documents [1] the rtupdate script for dealing with
> default runtime changes. Is this documentation still valid? Will rtupdate be
> used when the default runtime changes to python 3 or later?
>
python3.X series and python2.X series are two distinct languages
(incompatible API and ABI changes), and it has been decided to keep
both alive as independent implementations.
thus "/usr/bin/python" will always point to a python2.X
implementation, the last one ever of which is python2.7.
However, "/usr/bin/python3" will continue to be updated, and will be
migrating in debian (e.g. 3.1 -> 3.2, 3.2 -> 3.3, and etc).
.rtupdate file location for python3 is /usr/share/python3/runtime.d
ps. ... apart from Arch who decided to point "python" to a python3.x
implementation, which is widely agreed as being wrong. And Python
upstream essentially veto doing so -
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/
Regards,
Dmitrijs.
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