Re: python3 for NetBSD/pkgsrc

[Chris Ross <cross+netbsd%distal.com@localhost>]

On Nov 15, 2010, at 22:12 , Jonathan A. Kollasch wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 09:58:44PM -0500, Chris Ross wrote:
>> 
>>  I was surprised to see, on recent investigation of pkgsrc, that there 
>> doesn't seem to be a python any newer than 2.6.x.  Since 2.7 and 3.1 have 
>> been out for many months, and 3.0 well before that, I was curious if I was 
>> missing something.  Is there a python3 somewhere else in the pkgsrc tree, or 
>> a reason that it isn't?
>> 
> 
> Someone packaging 2.7 would be good.
> 
> Python 3, maybe not such a good idea to have packaged, it simply breaks
> too many things.

  I would disagree with that.  Perhaps installing it as "python" might break 
things, but I think installing it as "python3", with the various library 
components in their version-specific paths, would be a good thing.  This is how 
most Linux distributions have been doing it.

                         - Chris