[Python-Dev] Python-3 transition in Arch Linux

[Allan McRae]

On 05/11/10 18:47, Thomas Wouters wrote:
> No, that's not my point at all. The problem isn't that Python 3 is
> incompatible with Python 2. The problem is that stuff broke without
> (apparently) fair warning.

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Just to clarify (and going way off topic for this list...), this was 
discussed on the Arch Linux mailing lists around six months in advance, 
then again about two months beforehand when the rebuild started.  Then 
it sat in our testing repository for a month where issues were discussed 
on our mailing lists and forums.  Also a news post was made on our 
website front page before moving it into our main repos.

With a rolling release distro we do not have the luxury of making 
release notes every major release so we make it abundantly clear to our 
users that we expect them to at least always read the front page news 
before updating.  There are even wrapper scripts for our package manager 
that print the news headlines before updating.

So there was warning.  As always, it was just ignored by a portion of 
our users.

Allan