I think that my only concern at this point is how the Python development team sees the future of the binary: if the python and python3 convention is kept I worry about the ease of portability apropos to development under Arch. For further in-depth discussion of the overall move the comments of the post on HN are excellent and illustrate clearly both sides. On Oct 20, 2010, at 9:52, Hilton Medeiros <medeiros.hilton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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
