On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 09:18:39PM +0200, frantisek holop wrote:
> this question is more specifically about pyflakes
> update i am working on.
>
> it has one codebase that works both for py2 and py3
> files. so in theory it needs no flavor, just
> have a py2 version and use that for py3 as well.
> at the moment this is likely not an issue, because
> most people will probably have both py2 and py3
> installed. on the other hand, it would be quite
> a heavy dependency to install py2 only to be able
> to use pyflakes if the only python installed is py3.
>
> so basically:
>
> 1. one single py2 version
> 2. py3 flavor, installed with bin/pyflakes${MODPY_VERSION}
> 3. py3 flavor, conflict marker
>
> i am inclined to go with (1) until py2 is widespread.
> i see (2) as waste of space. (3) is a bit
> overengineered :)
>
> which approach would be preferred?
IMHO the default python version should be used, i.e. py2.
It's not a big deal to have both python versions installed.
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Antoine
