On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 6:03 AM, Ben de Groot <yng...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> I don't see any strong technical reason to switch from python2 + >> python3 to python2-only enabled. Some people don't like having two >> versions of python installed -- that's about the gist of it. > > Indeed, there is no strong technical reason, except that some people > like to keep their systems more lean. But I think having a smaller > stage3 tarball is a more important reason. The python team has > historically left that up to the RelEng team, which has been averse to > handling that themselves. > >> So, I'm personally not going to make that change without some kind of >> vote on it. I can arrange a vote within the python team if you like. > > I would like to hear from the other team members, yes.
I have sympathy towards those who are asking for only one Python in stages (as in, I would be fine with that), but I very much think we should not leave Python 3 out of generally installed systems by default. We need to move through the transition, and increasing the barriers to Python 3 adoption will only make that process slower. I also feel like a voting process for this is probably not a solution. Cheers, Dirkjan
