On Mar 02, 2011, at 02:49 PM, James Y Knight wrote: >On Mar 2, 2011, at 12:14 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: >> 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. > >Why not? 2.7 is supposed to be in long term maintenance mode. Surely if it's >a good idea for everyone else to ship a python2 binary, 2.7.next should also >install it when building from source...
Seems like it's straying into new feature territory to me, but then I'm not the 2.7 RM. OTOH, if it really does help Python 3 adoption, it might be worth it. -Barry
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