On Mar 02, 2011, at 03:29 PM, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: >[Allan McRae, 2011-03-02] >> But is that not the whole point of adding the /usr/bin/python2 symlink. >> That way a developer can explicitly use a /usr/bin/python2 or >> /usr/bin/python3 shebang and have it portable everywhere. At the moment, >> Debian seems to be the major hold-up on that actually being a reality >> being the only major distro I could find that does not provide such a >> symlink. > >Do you realize how many (still perfectly usable) scripts written in >Python 2.x few years ago (and not modified since then) are out there? >Do you realize how much work would it require to fix every single one >of them to point to /usr/bin/python2 instead? Even if we'd start checking >mdate and change it at build time automatically, there still will be way >too many false positives... for no clear gain.
There's no need to require that change. In Debian, /usr/bin/python can continue point to python2 for a very long time. I don't have a problem with adding such a symlink, and I think it should be done by Informational PEP, not Standards Track PEP. Since there will be no Python 2.8, our own build system shouldn't ever be changed to add such a link, but we can recommend it for consistency among distros, which would be free to adopt it or not. -Barry
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