On 02/03/2011 14:04, James Y Knight wrote:
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,
Only partly true. It's a new version of an existing language that
introduces backwards incompatible changes. It *isn't* a new language and
I write code that happily runs under Python 2 (2.4+) and 3.
Michael
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
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