On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 4:56 AM, Piotr Ożarowski <piotr@debian.org> wrote:
[Sandro Tosi, 2011-03-02]
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 10:01, Piotr Ożarowski <piotr@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?)
But the same is already true for python2.X vs. python2.Y. Explicit is better than implicit etc. Plus, 5 years from now everybody is going to be annoyed that "python" still refers to some ancient unused version of Python. If it takes a PEP to change your position, let's write the PEP. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)