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September 2018

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Re: [Linux-SIG] Updating PEP 394 to recommend soft-linking python to python3 on newer distributions
by Petr Viktorin Sept. 26, 2018

Sept. 26, 2018

On 9/26/18 12:19 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 at 00:49, Barry Warsaw <barry(a)python.org> wrote: >> >> On Sep 24, 2018, at 05:48, Sorin Sbarnea <ssbarnea(a)redhat.com> wrote: >>> >>> I would like to propose a change on PEP 394 recommendations which were originally made almost 7 years ago when python3 was bleeding edge for most distributions. >> >> The last time this topic came up, we essentially deferred changing PEP 394 … [View More]

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Updating PEP 394 to recommend soft-linking python to python3 on newer distributions
by Sorin Sbarnea Sept. 26, 2018

Sept. 26, 2018

Hi! I would like to propose a change on PEP 394 recommendations which were originally made almost 7 years ago when python3 was bleeding edge for most distributions. Now almost all major distributions are switching to python3 by default and not installing python2 in their base deployment. They also seem careful to follow PEP 394 which is a good thing to do. Still, the side effect of this is that based on that they do *not* create the symlink between python -> python3 which means a newly … [View More]

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