On Jul 24, 2013, at 08:26 AM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: ><nod> I think bkabrda is looking for some clarification on PEP-394. My >reading and participation in the previous discussions lead me to believe >that while PEP-394 wants to be diplomatic, the message it wants to get >across is: > >1) warn distributions that what Arch was doing was premature. >2) provide a means to get them to switch at roughly the same time (when the > recommendation in the PEP is flipped to suggest linking /usr/bin/python > to /usr/bin/python3)
+1 >This is especially my reading from the Recommendations section of the PEP. >Unfortunately, we're getting stuck in the Abstract section which has this >bullet point: > >* python should refer to the same target as python2 but may refer to python3 >on some bleeding edge distributions Yes, that wording is confusing and should be fixed. >Knowing the history, I read this in two parts: >* Recommendation to distributions: "python should refer to the same target > as python2". >* Statement of fact: "but may refer to python3 on some bleeding edge > *ahem*Arch*ahem* distributions" > >However, other people are reading this as one recommendation for >distributions: > >If you are a conservative, slow moving distro (like RHEL or Debian Stable) >then you should point to python2. If you are a fast moving distro like >Arch or Fedora or Ubuntu then you should point to python3. > >So -- is there some opinion on which of these is correct? You know how I'm going to answer. :) I like the way you've split that out into recommendations and statements-of-fact. >> The key, though, is adding python2 and getting your code to use that >> binary specifically so that shifting the default name is more of a >> convenience than something which might break existing code not ready for >> the switch. > ><nod> yeah, this is something that I think should be in the distribution's >one year plan regardless of whether the binary is switched now or not. We need to do that in Debian. -Barry
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