On 6/28/19 2:48 AM, Gerald Henriksen wrote:
On Thu, 27 Jun 2019 16:09:58 -0400, you wrote:
On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 2:52 PM Dan Book <grinnz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
As an outsider to the Python community, not having any binary or package that responds to the expected name "python" would be a disaster.
Can you expand on that? As I understand it, most things that are
calling for "python" now are expecting that to be "python2". So when
it becomes "python3", they'll break anyway. So why perpetuate a
pattern that's not future-proof (for some values of "proof")?
Because it's not about what some python code expects, it about what
the human being using Fedora expects.
Nobody trying to compile a C program expects to have to use gcc9, they
just expect to type in gcc.
This.
On my home computer I was able to get rid of python-unversioned-command
and symlinked ~/bin/python to /usr/bin/python3, so whenever I need
python I get what I want and not the about-to-retire piece of history,
ah the sanity.
On my work laptop I still run into needing /usr/bin/python -> python2
every now and then, unfortunately. Eagerly waiting for the day when it
starts pointing to python3 instead.
- Panu -
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