[Sandro Tosi, 2011-03-02] > On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 13:56, Piotr Ożarowski <pi...@debian.org> wrote: > > [Sandro Tosi, 2011-03-02] > >> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 10:01, Piotr Ożarowski <pi...@debian.org> wrote: > >> > I co-maintain with Matthias a package that provides /usr/bin/python > >> > symlink in Debian and I can confirm that it will always point to Python > >> > 2.X. We also do not plan to add /usr/bin/python2 symlink (and I guess > >> > only accepted PEP can change that) > >> > >> Can you please explain why you NACK this proposed change? > > > > it encourages people to change /usr/bin/python symlink to point to > > python3.X which I'm strongly against (how can I tell that upstream > > author meant python3.X and not python2.X without checking the code?) > > with 'people' do you mean 'users'? if so, isn't this risk already present?
users already break their systems via "sudo ez_install ..." (note the "sudo" part!), I meant developers (distro and upstream authors). If a programmer develops a script in Python 3 on Arch and later ships his file with /usr/bin/python in shebang, it's very likely that this script will not work on all distributions that didn't (yet?) change the symlink. > If you, user, change the python symlink (provided by python-minimal in > Debian) to something else than what's shipped, it's still a local > change, and will never be supported; but with python2 *Debian is free* > to decide if python can be pointed to python3, if the time will come. ... and make other distributions developers' life miserable? -- Piotr Ożarowski Debian GNU/Linux Developer www.ozarowski.pl www.griffith.cc www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: 1D2F A898 58DA AF62 1786 2DF7 AEF6 F1A2 A745 7645 _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
