>> I believe we agreed at the language summit last year (or maybe even the >> year before) that "python" would always be python2.x, and "python3" >> would be python3.x. >> >> And by "always" we indeed meant forever. To do otherwise would break >> scripts even many, many years from now. > > It sounds like the distributions aren't going to cooperate with us. > Arch has already switched. Gentoo will allow the user to switch > /usr/bin/python to point to python3, and I suspect this will become > the default at some point. > > I'm not sad about that, myself.
Neither am I. I personally also disagree with the decision taken at the language summit (and believe that the language summit is no place to make such decisions). Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
