On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 7:50 AM Victor Stinner <vstin...@redhat.com> wrote:
> Le jeu. 14 févr. 2019 à 14:38, Matthias Klose <d...@ubuntu.com> a écrit : > > Debian's concern about pointing python to python3 is that it will break > software > > after an upgrade. The current state seems is still the same that Debian > doesn't > > want to ship a python symlink after the Python2 removal. > > The other safer alternative is to start to provide "py" launcher on > Unix as well. Since it's something new, it's perfectly fine to decide > from the start to make it point to the latest Python version by > default. > Since it has come up a couple of times and in case people are curious, the Python Launcher for UNIX is currently available at https://crates.io/crates/python-launcher and the basics are there. I have one more key feature to implement -- `py --list` -- before I view it as having all the basics in place. Once I have --list done it will be trying to tackle the hard issue of how to tie in things like PyPy or non-PATH-installed interpreters into the launcher (which, since it is configuration, people will bikeshed on forever about, so maybe I should ignore people and solve it quickly ;) .
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