On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 4:56 AM, 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?)
But the same is already true for python2.X vs. python2.Y. Explicit is better than implicit etc. Plus, 5 years from now everybody is going to be annoyed that "python" still refers to some ancient unused version of Python. If it takes a PEP to change your position, let's write the PEP. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ 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