[Guido van Rossum, 2011-03-02] > 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.
I don't really mind adding /usr/bin/python2 symlink just to clean Arch mess, but I do mind changing /usr/bin/python to point to python3 (and I can use the same argument - "Explicit is better than implicit" - if you need Python 3, say so in the shebang, right?). What I'm afraid of is when we'll add /usr/bin/python2, we'll start getting a lot of scripts that will have to be checked manually every time new upstream version is released because we cannot assume what upstream author is using at given point. If /usr/bin/python will be disallowed in shebangs on the other hand (and all scripts will use /usr/bin/python2, /usr/bin/python3, /usr/bin/python4 or /usr/bin/python2.6 etc.) I don't see a problem with letting administrators choose /usr/bin/python (right now not only changing it from python2.X to python3.X will break the system but also changing it from /usr/bin/pytohn2.X to /usr/bin/python2.Y will break it, and believe me, I know what I'm talking about (one of the guys at work did something like this once)) [all IMHO, dunno if other Debian's python-defaults maintainers agree with me] -- Piotr Ożarowski Debian GNU/Linux Developer www.ozarowski.pl www.griffith.cc www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: 1D2F A898 58DA AF62 1786 2DF7 AEF6 F1A2 A745 7645 _______________________________________________ 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
