On Saturday, May 9, 2020 11:58:43 PM MST Miro Hrončok wrote: > On 10. 05. 20 0:09, John M. Harris Jr 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. > > > Good for you. How does that support your argument? The first sentence was the supporting statement, the rest was providing an anecdote as supporting context. -- John M. Harris, Jr.
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