On 10/20/2010 11:45 AM, maxc wrote:
There is an excellent post by Guido here, Hilton:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2008-February/011910.html
Guido seems to favor using /usr/bin/python3.0 or /usr/bin/python3 and
/usr/bin/python as symlinks to the respective versions of Python.
'Perhaps we should only install "python3.0" and not "python".'
We're not here to discussion semantics ofc. :) There is a much broader
concern which I hope we can address through friendly discourse.
On Oct 20, 2010, at 11:26 AM, Hilton Medeiros
<medeiros.hilton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 10:58:42 -0400
Max Countryman <maxc@xxxxxx> wrote:
> That is fine unless the Python development team has decide that
> python3 will not become python.
>
> Python 2.7.x will be maintained for quite some time. (In excess of
> four more years.) Even after it is dropped in the future there's no
> indication that the python3 binary is intended to become the python
> binary.
>
> The link I posted earlier to the thread on the Python mailing list
> seems to indicate the opposite.
A 'python' binary doesn't and won't ever exist, it is only a
symlink, Max.
Since you have seemed to miss my previous post. I'll post again!
Really please, please don't top post.
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