[Python-Dev] Python-3 transition in Arch Linux (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sun Nov 7 06:44:07 CET 2010

On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 11:41 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

Instead, I recall that a decision was made (and I'm not sure whether with consensus or not) that "make install" would install /usr/bin/python3, for the time being. Period.

Indeed, that's my recollection as well. Whether python3 ever inherits the python symlink at some point in the future is a different question that has never really been discussed (and probably makes more sense at the distro level at this point in time - "python = Python 2.x, python3 = Python 3.x" will likely stand as python-dev's consensus recommendation for quite some time to come).

Cheers, Nick.

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