On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 8:02 AM, Craig Rodrigues <rodr...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 4:45 AM, Carmel NY <carmel...@outlook.com> wrote: > >> >> I was just wondering if there is any serious consideration to at least >> changing the FreeBSD default version to "3.x". > > > > It's actually a lot of work to update all the Python packages to work > with Python 3, since at the language level there are changes which make > valid Python 2 code a syntax error in Python 3. In the Linux world, both > Ubuntu and Fedora have huge > efforts to make Python 3 the default. They are not done yet: > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Python/3 > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Python_3_as_Default > > Probably when one or both of those projects are done, > it will be much easier for FreeBSD to change the default, > since the Linux guys will have fixed a lot of the packages that FreeBSD > uses. > Most likely they will be done by next year. > > The Fedora Project is having a Fedora Activity Day (FAD) from Nov. 14 - 15 to port Python packages to Python 3. You can find details how to join here: https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/help-port-python-packages-to-python-3/ -- Craig _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
