Am 02.03.2011 20:49, schrieb James Y Knight: > 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...
I agree with Barry that this would be a new feature, and, by default, cannot be added to the 2.7 release which is in maintenance mode. IMO, an accepted PEP could override the policy, though. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ 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
