>For third parties who want to distribute scripts that run out-of-the-box
>everywhere (installers, cross-platform system management or monitoring
>scripts, build scripts, etc.), Python 3 isn't an option. If we remove Python
>2 from the default install in Debian, Python 2 ceases to be an option too. So
>they'll start using sh or perl or something, or ship compiled code, both of
>which I think are net negative options.
Do you think that will happen even if Python 2 is just an apt-get away?