On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 04:31:17 +0000 (UTC) Mithrandir <mithrandiragain@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Max Countryman <maxc <at> me.com> writes: > > > > > > I failed to find a reference, but I seem to remember the Python > > > team > deciding at some point that they > > intended to keep the name "python" for the Python 2.X binaries > > perpetually, > and require Python 3.X to be > > invoked as "python3". Arch might be alone in making this change, and > inconsistent with other Python distributions. > > > EDIT: I can't find a conclusive decision but here is one > > > discussion on the > subject: > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2008-February/0... > > > > There is any interesting conversation taking place over at Hacker > > News: > http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1808840 > > > > > > > Ha ha! We posted at virtually the same time! (Or not...) :D > HackerNews, Slashdot, ...: - Someone post an announcement with 10 lines; - They read it (or not) and think that that is all the information behind the story; - They furiously start typing the first thing that pops in their mind; - By the time you (Mithrandir, in this case) posted a more in-depth post, the majority had already run to the next news. Also, the... bitching there is completely nonsense. I can't believe they know Linux or even python well enough judging by what they say about developing _difficulties_ because of this move. AFAIK, with python is easy as hell to build a local/virtual environment for any python version... I don't get it. Anyway, nothing to see there for this post, sadly. Congratulations to Allan, devs and tus for the move! Cheers, Hilton
