[Python-Dev] PEP 394 request for pronouncement (python2 symlink in *nix systems) (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Tue Feb 14 03:28:40 CET 2012

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 7:07 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

I think Antoine makes a good point about ease of introspection when you have multiple versions in the same series installed, so I'd be fine with: - updating the PEP recommendation to say that either form of link is fine (with hard links marginally faster, but harder to introspect) - noting that python.org releases will consistently use symlinks for easier introspection via "ls -l" - updating Makefile.pre.in to ensure that we really do consistently use symlinks Sounds fine to me as well. When you update the PEP, please also update the mark with the actual issue number (or add it to the References).

Hmm, the PEP builder on python.org may need a kick. I added the tracker reference before starting this thread (http://hg.python.org/peps/rev/78b94f8648fa), but didn't comment on it since I expected the site to update in fairly short order.

For the patch, it seems that one open issue is OSX support, although I'm unsure what exactly the issue is.

I don't know either, but I'll take Ned's word for it if he says there's something more he needs to do to make it work in the OS X binaries.

Cheers, Nick.

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