On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 6:09 PM John M. Harris Jr <johnmh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Saturday, May 9, 2020 2:40:02 PM MST Miro Hrončok wrote: > > On 09. 05. 20 22:56, John M. Harris Jr wrote: > > > > > On Wednesday, April 29, 2020 3:38:36 PM MST Miro Hrončok wrote: > > > > > >> The command that the user executes is "python3.9", not "python39". > > > > > > > > > Let's be realistic. The command they run is 'python', 'python2' or > > > 'python3'. Sure, it's a symlink, but that's what users actually type to > > > be executed. > > > > The entire point of packaging Python 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8 and 3.9 is to > > support users who need to be that explicit. The fact that you don't > > consider this use case dos not justify the "let's be realistic" comment. > > Please, don't. > > In every environment I've seen a specific version used, the primary symlink is > updated to point to the version that's supported or being used. For example, > at work engineers asked for Python 2.7 to be installed on all of the systems > in a given department, so my team installed the SCL, created a wrapper and > updated the symlink 'python' to point to it. > In *my* case, I'm producing RPMs and DEBs that are pointed specifically at each interpreter version. And I do both development using virtualenvs with different Python versions (and using tools like tox to do testing across the versions) and straight up system-style development targeting these interpreters when needed. In fact, I *asked* for this change to be made because it makes *my* life simpler, and rationalizes things across Fedora and Debian/Ubuntu (which I frequently port back and forth). The fact that the team was considering it for other reasons was merely a lucky coincidence. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
