On 04 Mar, 2011,at 02:21 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> wrote:

For *nix, I think there is a simple way forward that is an improvement
over where things stand now. For Windows, I don't think we can do much
better than the status quo and for Mac OS X... I think Apple will do
whatever Apple feel like doing :)

Apple will generally follow what we decide to do for the base install.

Anyway, I'd say that OSX should do the same as Unix platforms here and support '#!/usr/bin/env python2'. Adding another symlink is fairly trivial.

Ronald

P.S. I'm a bit confused about this discussion though, wouldn't adding python2 to the installation be a feature change and as such not something that can be done in a maintenance branch?