On 08/06/2012 04:22 AM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > The only distribution that has switched is arch. When they did there was > a big uproar about how arch was doing something wrong which eventually > resulted in that PEP.
Yeah, we mainly wrote PEP 394 in order to nudge *everyone else* into providing a /usr/bin/python2 symlink to help deal with Arch making their bold leap into the unknown (as well as going on record that we think switching it *right now* is still a bad idea). There's "bleeding edge" and then there's "tap dancing on razor blades in your bare feet" :P To be honest, I expect that the long term outcome will be that "/usr/bin/python" becomes solely the preserve of the OS, with all cross-platform scripts and applications using "/usr/bin/pythonX", software collections, or language level virtual environments. From an end user perspective, having things mostly compatible with both 2 and 3 should come *before* that symlink gets flipped rather than after. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan Red Hat Infrastructure Engineering & Development, Brisbane _______________________________________________ python-devel mailing list python-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/python-devel