On 02/03/2011 14:04, James Y Knight wrote: > On Mar 2, 2011, at 8:23 AM, Sandro Tosi wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 13:56, Piotr Ożarowski<piotr at debian.org> wrote: >>> [Sandro Tosi, 2011-03-02] >>>> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 10:01, Piotr Ożarowski<piotr at 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?) >> with 'people' do you mean 'users'? if so, isn't this risk already present? >> >> If you, user, change the python symlink (provided by python-minimal in >> Debian) to something else than what's shipped, it's still a local >> change, and will never be supported; but with python2 *Debian is free* >> to decide if python can be pointed to python3, if the time will come. > I suspect he's saying it'd be better if the time didn't come (if so, I'd agree). Python3 *is* unfortunately a new and incompatible programming language, Only partly true. It's a new version of an existing language that introduces backwards incompatible changes. It *isn't* a new language and I write code that happily runs under Python 2 (2.4+) and 3. Michael > it makes sense for it to have it have its own interpreter name. Eventually /usr/bin/python might no longer be installed, but that doesn't mean python3 shouldn't simply be called python3 forever. > > James > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/fuzzyman%40voidspace.org.uk -- http://www.voidspace.org.uk/ May you do good and not evil May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others May you share freely, never taking more than you give. -- the sqlite blessing http://www.sqlite.org/different.html
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