On 3 February 2016 at 11:00, Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote: > On Feb 03, 2016, at 11:03 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >>The point being, I'm not entirely sure I agree that a major version bump >>would *necessarily* be considered a big deal, let alone a barrier to >>adoption. > > The problem isn't so much the major version bump, but what to do about the > command name on *nix. I'm admittedly biased about that being "the" > problem. ;)
You beat me to bringing it up :) > I think you'd get a lot of resistance if you named it 'python'. You can't > name it 'python3'. Maybe 'python4' would be okay, but please let's not do > that any time soon. We're still in the midst of a transition to Python 3 and > I think anything that muddies those waters will just mean more FUD that some > of us front-liners have to contend with. Although if anyone has both the C/POSIX skills and the necessary roundtuits to help move Geoffrey Thomas's "pythonmux" [1] idea forward, we may be able to settle the preferred behaviour of the "/usr/bin/python" path once and for all. Cheers, Nick. [1] https://github.com/geofft/pythonmux -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers