Koop Mast wrote on Mon, 24 Sep 2012: > I don't have a solution for this issue, but I would like to point out > that the next version of GNOME 3 (3.8 series) will switch to python 3. > While I think that we can get away with having python 2.7 as default, > having the two python versions conflict isn't going to help at all.
I do not see the issue with the ports system here, but rather with package managers, which do not handle conditional behaviour in ports well enough. There would be several solutions: * get rid completely of bin/2to3, bin/pydoc<PYMAJOR>, bin/idle<PYMAJOR, bin/python and so on, which is likely to break tons of ports and 3rd party software without a chance to ever fix this cleanly * add the symlink creation for bin/python, etc. to the existing meta-package lang/python (where it belongs anyways in my opinion) and into relevant <PYMAJOR> meta-packages lang/python2, lang/python3, etc., which depend on a default version (usually the latest one), which can be overriden by users * fix up or enhance the package managers to support the conditionals within the ports. I would prefer the second solution, which manages the symlink creation in own packages and ports. Cheers Marcus
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