[Python-Dev] Support the /usr/bin/python2 symlink upstream (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Wed Mar 2 01:38:37 CET 2011

On Wed, 02 Mar 2011 00:45:51 +0100 "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

>> I believe we agreed at the language summit last year (or maybe even the >> year before) that "python" would always be python2.x, and "python3" >> would be python3.x. >> >> And by "always" we indeed meant forever. To do otherwise would break >> scripts even many, many years from now. > > It sounds like the distributions aren't going to cooperate with us. > Arch has already switched. Gentoo will allow the user to switch > /usr/bin/python to point to python3, and I suspect this will become > the default at some point. > > I'm not sad about that, myself.

Neither am I. I personally also disagree with the decision taken at the language summit (and believe that the language summit is no place to make such decisions).

+1 with the latter.

Regards

Antoine.

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