On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 8:52 AM, 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! yeah, concur... ultimately i've had few problems; the couple i did have with pyjamas/pyjs i was able to fix pretty quickly. it's amusing sensing the hostility of some comments around the net; personally it just seems like the same old same old... following upstream. i like the python2.7, python2, python3.1, python3, etc, scheme... i think this makes it very easy for developers to select the specific interpreter they need, if any. i hope this trend becomes/is defacto. if you are just running `python`, you should be prepared for the environment ambiguity it entails. C Anthony
