On Wed, 02 Mar 2011 00:45:51 +0100 "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote: > >> 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).
+1 with the latter. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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