Nick Coghlan wrote:
Steven Bethard wrote:
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 9:37 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
Note that such an approach would then require an altaltinstall command
in order to be able to install a specific version of python 3.x without
changing the python3 alias (e.g. installing 3.2
Allan McRae wrote:
Nick Coghlan wrote:
Steven Bethard wrote:
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 9:37 PM, Nick Coghlan
wrote:
Note that such an approach would then require an altaltinstall command
in order to be able to install a specific version of python 3.x
without
changing the python3 alias
When someone configures a module using a particular
version of python, then ALL shebangs need changed to use that version.
And it is generally bad practice to hardcode /usr/bin/python into any
application as you are never quite sure which version you are getting.
Instead allow i
On 05/11/10 08:40, Laurens Van Houtven wrote:
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 5:44 AM, Allan McRae wrote:
According to #python, we are all idiots
I realize this is not really what your message was about and for sake
of brevity you used a bit of a hyperbole, but like Thomas I would
still like to
On 05/11/10 11:20, Jesus Cea wrote:
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On 04/11/10 05:44, Allan McRae wrote:
The second case was particularly interesting. These software would
change some of their #! to point at the python2 symlink and leave the
rest pointing at python. Note that
On 05/11/10 18:47, Thomas Wouters wrote:
No, that's not my point at all. The problem isn't that Python 3 is
incompatible with Python 2. The problem is that stuff broke without
(apparently) fair warning.
Just to clarify (and going way off topic for this list...), this was
discussed on the Arc
On 02/03/11 08:06, Guido van Rossum wrote:
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Eric Smith wrote:
On 3/1/2011 4:19 PM, Kerrick Staley wrote:
Hello,
There is a need for the default Python2 install to place a symlink at
/usr/bin/python2 that points to /usr/bin/python, or for the
documentation to rec
On 03/03/11 00:03, Piotr Ożarowski wrote:
[Sandro Tosi, 2011-03-02]
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 13:56, Piotr Ożarowski wrote:
[Sandro Tosi, 2011-03-02]
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 10:01, Piotr Ożarowski wrote:
I co-maintain with Matthias a package that provides /usr/bin/python
symlink in Debian and I
On 03/03/11 00:29, Piotr Ożarowski wrote:
[Allan McRae, 2011-03-02]
But is that not the whole point of adding the /usr/bin/python2 symlink.
That way a developer can explicitly use a /usr/bin/python2 or
/usr/bin/python3 shebang and have it portable everywhere. At the moment,
Debian seems to be
