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

Ned Deily nad at acm.org
Thu Feb 16 10:32:24 CET 2012

In article <CADiSq7fg3Vgxd39teuvbCvhhmPKUwSS0qckSrfPKN5yE0dv3NQ at mail.gmail.com>, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote: > Anyway, I don't think anyone is objecting against the PEP allowing symlinks > now.

Yeah, the onus is just back on me to do the final updates to the PEP and patch based on the discussion in this thread. Unless life unexpectedly intervenes, I expect that to happen on Saturday (my time). After that, the only further work is for Ned to supply whatever updates he needs to bring the 2.7 Mac OS X installers into line with the new naming scheme.

There are two issues that I know of for OS X. One is just getting a python2 symlink into the bin directory of a framework build. That's easy. The other is managing symlinks (python, python2, and python3) across framework bin directories; currently there's no infrastructure for that. That part will probably have to wait until PyCon.

-- Ned Deily, nad at acm.org

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