Python default version
Perry E. Metzger
perry at piermont.com
Wed Mar 21 00:48:37 UTC 2018
On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 13:43:59 -0500 Ryan Schmidt
<ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
> Right, I'm proposing changing our unwritten policy regarding which
> Python we want to use by default. Our current policy isn't written
> in documentation but is implied by the behavior of the python-1.0
> portgroup. So I propose changing the python-1.0 portgroup. Whereas
> we (or at least I) previously used python27 as default, unless a
> port required python3x, I propose that we now prefer to use the
> latest python3x, and only use python27 if a port doesn't support
> python3 (and ideally we work with the developers to add python3
> compatibility).
This seems like a straightforward and sane policy.
Perry
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