[Bug 526126] Review Request: python3 - Python 3.x (backwards incompatible version)

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--- Comment #52 from Dave Malcolm <dmalcolm at redhat.com>  2009-11-18 10:30:40 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #51)
> hmm i am curious why not call python3 -> python and the old version
> python-compat2.6 or whatever?  
Python 3 is intended by upstream to be the future of Python, but we have many
critical components that use Python 2. Python 2 and Python 3 are sufficiently
different that we need both (try writing "print" in each). Python 2 will be
around for a long time.

Changing the meaning of "python" to mean python 3 rather than python 2 in
specfiles/yum/rpmdb would have a very high chance of breaking something during
updates, and I don't see any real benefit.

Hence the plan is to continue to use "python-" to mean the existing python 2
stack, and "python3-" for the new parallel-installable python3 stack.

For more information see https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Python3F13

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