Re: [Gimp-developer] Future of Python v2 scripts

[Simon Budig <simon budig de>]

Joao S. O. Bueno (gwidion gmail com) wrote:
> While it is is feasible to have Python3 as the system default install,
> it is not practical to remove Python2 from the system. Even if it is
> not installed by default (which I doubt very much) it will be
> reachable via the default packaging system (and therefore available as
> a GIMP dependency).
>
> Anyway, even if we switched today to Python3 for GIMP, it would only
> be available as of GIMP 2.10 - so GIMP 2.8 would still use Python2
> scripts.

It would make sense to switch to python 3 in sync with the
(plugin-breaking) switch to gtk3 with the 3.0 release.

Bye,
        Simon

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