On 4 Dec 2014 00:59, "Donald Stufft" <don...@stufft.io> wrote: > > > On Dec 3, 2014, at 9:51 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > - (This is not really related to the switch, but more of a general remark) In [4], it says that "python 3 version of the executable gains a python3- prefix". This is IMO bad, since upstream projects tend to name the versioned binaries "foo-3.4, foo-3" or "foo3.4, foo3". We should accept one of these - I'm not really certain which one of them. I tried to discuss this several times on distutils-sig mailing list, but without reaching a consensus. Either way, prefixing with python3- doesn't make sense to me, because it's not similar to any upstream way and you don't find the binaries under their names using tab completion (e.g. foo<tab> doesn't tell you about python3-foo). >> >> Agreed. >> >> CPython & pip use the "foo3.4, foo3" convention, so that seems enough of a reason to use that convention by default. We may want a "unless upstream does it differently" caveat though.
Oops, I just noticed an ambiguity in my caveat. I meant "unless the particular upstream project being packaged does it differently". > It doesn't really matter right now but long term I think python packaging should just natively support commands like this. Either just as a matter of fact, opt in, or by allowing templated command names. Either way I think the upstream tooling should and likely will follow python's lead for how these are written. Yeah. It's somewhere on the list of the umpteen gazillion things that could still use improving ;) Cheers, Nick. > > _______________________________________________ > python-devel mailing list > python-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/python-devel
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