Proposal: default to concurrent

[Marcus von Appen]

On 1/29/2017 9:40:15 PM, "John W. O'Brien" <john at saltant.com> wrote:

>On 1/29/17 14:22, Eitan Adler wrote:
>>  On 29 January 2017 at 11:08, John W. O'Brien <john at saltant.com> 
>>wrote:
>>>  Hello FreeBSD Python,
>>>  On the
>>>  other hand, there are lots of ports for which concurrent is a no-op, 
>>>and
>>>  lots more that don't support python3 at all meaning that concurrent 
>>>has
>>>  little to no chance to cause harm.
>>>
>>>  What I propose is to enable the concurrent behavior by default and 
>>>to
>>>  provide a feature to disable it when necessary.
>>
>>
>>  silly question but why is it an option in the first place?
>
>Not at all silly. I can only guess at the answer though. Let's consult
>its implementer [0].
>
>[0] https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=revision&revision=356921
>
Because at that time python ports existed, which did not build cleanly 
with python3,
but which were dependencies to many other ports. The situation may have 
changed
now.

Cheers
Marcus