Python 2 to 3 conversion - embrace the pain

Tue Mar 17 04:36:41 EDT 2015

On Tuesday 17 March 2015 14:33, Michael Torrie wrote:

> On 03/16/2015 09:04 PM, Mario Figueiredo wrote:
>> Are you saying this is a problem for any developer? Especially
>> considering this is a one-time operation...
>> 
>> Or maybe you mean lazy developers. But lazy developers are an edge
>> case not worth being catered for.
> 
> I guess I'm saying the package managers are a problem for developers who
> wish to distribute their products or projects to end users.

I think you have this exactly backwards. It's easy enough to provide a repo 
for yum or apt. What's hard is interoperating with multiple slightly-
different OSes or distros.

I think this would be equally hard with, or without, a package manager.

-- 
Steve