On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 06 Mar 2008 09:33:21 +0900 "Stephen J. Turnbull" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > > I still think it worthwhile to have *some* target in the Makefile > > > which depends on altinstall and does the bininstall and maninstall > > > steps. Something like "makeprimary"? > > How about "install-as-python" or "install-as-default"? > > How about the install target smart? If there's a $PREFIX/bin/python, > it doesn't clobber it. If there's not, it does.
That's not enough -- this might hide a "python" on the shell's $PATH in a later spot. During the next 3 years or so, installing Py3k as the default "python" will be a deed of utter irresponsibility and is likely to break your system in subtle ways (both OSX and Linux these days use Python for certain system tasks). If you *really* want to shoot yourself in the foot this way, go ahead and explicitly use "make altinstall bininstall" or link it yourself. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
