[Fedora-packaging] Proposal: naming convention for Python 3 packages and subpackages

[John Dennis]

On 10/29/2009 06:27 PM, David Malcolm wrote:

> I rather like the idea of standardizing on a "python3-" prefix for _all_
> Python 3 module packages and subpackages, even if this leads to
> inconsistencies with their counterparts in the python 2 stack.  It would
> make the "threeness" of the packages stand out more.
>
> Thoughts?

Initially this sounds good to me. Because python 2 and python 3 are 
incompatible it's probably important we separate them at the packaging 
level, this seems like a good approach as any (even with some warts on 
the corner cases).

However package maintainers might not like the idea of having to 
maintain double the number of their packages for an interim period and I 
could see them wanting to have just one package that installs into both 
the python2 and python3 library locations. Also perhaps we don't want to 
inflate the number of python packages by 2x. Having not followed this 
discussion from it's outset I'm wondering if we might want to consider 
allowing a single python package to support both python versions. I'm 
sure there are multiple reasons why this is a horrible idea, but I 
thought I would throw it out for consideration and let it get shot down :-)
-- 
John Dennis <jdennis at redhat.com>

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