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

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Thu Feb 16 11:40:15 CET 2012

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 8:01 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

It may be that the PEP becomes irrelevant before it is widely accepted: if the sole remaining Python 2 version is 2.7, users may just as well refer to python2 as python2.7.

My hope is that a clear signal from us supporting a python2 symlink for cross-distro compatibility will encourage the commercial distros to add such a link to their 2.6 based variants (e.g. anything with an explicit python2.7 reference won't run by default on RHEL6, or rebuilds based on that).

Cheers, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia

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