[Nix-dev] Python 3 as default

Eelco Dolstra eelco.dolstra at logicblox.com
Tue Feb 14 16:40:07 CET 2017


Hi,

On 02/14/2017 04:28 PM, Denis wrote:

> The same would have sense for "jdk" and "jre".
> There are "jre7" and "jre8" and just "jre" which is "jre7" on darwin
> and "jre8" on linux. It is nothing but confusion.

Well, Java has better backwards compatibility (though obviously it's bad to have
"jre" point to different versions on different platforms). Python 2 and Python 3
are really different languages, so we should not quietly replace one with the other.

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Eelco Dolstra | LogicBlox, Inc. | http://nixos.org/~eelco/


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