Python default versions

[Craig Rodrigues]

On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 4:45 AM, Carmel NY <carmel_ny at outlook.com> wrote:

>
> I was just wondering if there is any serious consideration to at least
> changing the FreeBSD default version to "3.x".



It's actually a lot of work to update all the Python packages to work
with Python 3, since at the language level there are changes which make
valid Python 2 code a syntax error in Python 3.  In the Linux world, both
Ubuntu and Fedora have huge
efforts to make Python 3 the default.  They are not done yet:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Python/3
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Python_3_as_Default

Probably when one or both of those projects are done,
it will be much easier for FreeBSD to change the default,
since the Linux guys will have fixed a lot of the packages that FreeBSD
uses.
Most likely they will be done by next year.

--
Craig