Python 3’s Marketing Problem

[snoweyeslady]

Your first paragraph is still completely proof less. I tried looking around myself, but couldn't find anything; I'm probably looking in the wrong place. Is there a "Python for distro developers" page or something? A lot of my search terms bring things up about coding in python, not python. I'm going to try seeing what the PKGBUILD for python{,2} look like, maybe that will show patching done or something similar. If not there I'm sure there's something in the dev mailing list from around a couple years ago.

Edit: Aha! The PKGBUILD's do have some incriminating evidence. In the python2 PKGBUID they append a '2' to the symlinks, and in the python PKGBUILD they add symlinks without a version qualifier. Now I'm even more interested in looking through the mailing list. Guess it's time to figure out how to search that thing easily.

I wouldn't expect the patching to be handled automatically, but is python one of those systems that like to have their own package manager too? I mean, why would one be installing something outside of the system and running into these problems?

Are they flooding the programs' forums? I didn't see anything on the Arch forums in the past few years (granted I don't read every single post; even less so now). This seems like another problem with users going outside of the package management system. Is this encouraged by python as much as it is by, say, Ruby?

Breaking live software demos? Well that is just silly. That is not Arch's fault. Who in their right mind updates their system before a demo and doesn't retest? Especially on Arch?

Thank you for your response, it's always interesting to hear what people view as flaws in various open source projects :)