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

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Wed Mar 2 21🔞38 CET 2011

On Mar 02, 2011, at 02:49 PM, James Y Knight wrote:

On Mar 2, 2011, at 12:14 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote:

I don't have a problem with adding such a symlink, and I think it should be done by Informational PEP, not Standards Track PEP. Since there will be no Python 2.8, our own build system shouldn't ever be changed to add such a link, but we can recommend it for consistency among distros, which would be free to adopt it or not. Why not? 2.7 is supposed to be in long term maintenance mode. Surely if it's a good idea for everyone else to ship a python2 binary, 2.7.next should also install it when building from source...

Seems like it's straying into new feature territory to me, but then I'm not the 2.7 RM. OTOH, if it really does help Python 3 adoption, it might be worth it.

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