[Python-Dev] Bilingual scripts (original) (raw)

Daniel Holth dholth at gmail.com
Tue May 28 20:19:27 CEST 2013

On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

On May 28, 2013, at 01:57 PM, Daniel Holth wrote:

Wheel has no mechanism for renaming scripts (or any file) based on the Python version used to install. Instead you would have to build python-version-specific packages for each desired script name. Note that I'm not trying to borrow any implementation details from wheels, just the file naming conventions (compatibility tags) described in PEP 425. It would still be up to upstream package or distro tools to fiddle the installed file names.

I'm just saying that I prefer a setup.py without too many Python-version-specific differences, since it would look pretty silly to install a wheel of nose generated on Python 3.2 on Python 3.3 and have the wrong version suffix on the scripts. I like the plainly named scripts without version suffixes.

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