On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 12:53:20PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
On Fri, 2013-07-19 at 10:17 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> Far better to encourage people to explicitly use /usr/bin/python2 and
> /usr/bin/python3 explicitly and discourage any use of plain /usr/bin/python
Note the GNOME discussion here:
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2012-November/msg00005...
One ugly part is that Debian Wheezy does not have "python2". That
combined with the Arch Linux people who made /usr/bin/python = python3
is a terrible mess for people who just want random portable scripts.
For GNOME we decided to just try to ensure python2 always exists:
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2012-November/msg00017...
<nod> These two concerns were reasons that PEP394 was written.
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/#rationale
and CPython2's install was changed to create the python2 symlink:
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/#application-to-the-cpython-refer...
which should make it into Debian at some point.
-Toshio