On Mar 2, 2011, at 8:23 AM, Sandro Tosi wrote: > On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 13:56, Piotr Ożarowski <pi...@debian.org> wrote: >> [Sandro Tosi, 2011-03-02] >>> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 10:01, Piotr Ożarowski <pi...@debian.org> wrote: >>>> I co-maintain with Matthias a package that provides /usr/bin/python >>>> symlink in Debian and I can confirm that it will always point to Python >>>> 2.X. We also do not plan to add /usr/bin/python2 symlink (and I guess >>>> only accepted PEP can change that) >>> >>> Can you please explain why you NACK this proposed change? >> >> it encourages people to change /usr/bin/python symlink to point to >> python3.X which I'm strongly against (how can I tell that upstream >> author meant python3.X and not python2.X without checking the code?) > > with 'people' do you mean 'users'? if so, isn't this risk already present? > > If you, user, change the python symlink (provided by python-minimal in > Debian) to something else than what's shipped, it's still a local > change, and will never be supported; but with python2 *Debian is free* > to decide if python can be pointed to python3, if the time will come.
I suspect he's saying it'd be better if the time didn't come (if so, I'd agree). Python3 *is* unfortunately a new and incompatible programming language, it makes sense for it to have it have its own interpreter name. Eventually /usr/bin/python might no longer be installed, but that doesn't mean python3 shouldn't simply be called python3 forever. James _______________________________________________ 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