Re: [tlug] Distro support matrix

[Raymond Wan <rwan.kyoto@example.com>]

On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 8:42 AM, Darren Cook <darren@example.com> wrote:
> Aside: why is Ubuntu close to latest release on most things, but way
> behind on Python (2.7x from 11.04 to snapshot, yet latest is 3.3.2
> apparently; centos is still on 2.6)?
> ...ah, answered my own question: 3.x is not backwards compatible [1].
> But 3.0 was released in Dec, 2008... Wow, they must really have changed
> things to have the distros still refusing to stock it after 5 years!


I'm not much of a Python user (learning it is on my to do list...like
many other things), but if you want Python 3 on Ubuntu, you would
install the python3 package [following for 13.04]:

$ sudo aptitude show python3
Package: python3
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Multi-Arch: allowed
Version: 3.3.1-0ubuntu1
Priority: important
Section: python
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@example.com>
Architecture: amd64
Uncompressed Size: 289 k
Depends: python3.3 (>= 3.3.1-1~), python3-minimal (= 3.3.1-0ubuntu1),
         libpython3-stdlib (= 3.3.1-0ubuntu1)
Suggests: python3-doc (>= 3.3.1-0ubuntu1), python3-tk (>= 3.3.1-0ubuntu1)
...


3.3.1 isn't the latest, but good enough.  I don't know how long the
python3 package has been around, though.  Unfortunately, the python3
package isn't shown in the distrowatch page; so in a way, that's kind
of misleading.  Where the left column says "python", it means the
version of the package called "python" and not the latest version of
Python.

Seems the goal is to have just Python 3 in the CD for Ubuntu 14.04
[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Python/3]...

Ray