[pypy-dev] Global executable naming policy

[William ML Leslie]

On 17 February 2012 16:21, Aaron DeVore <aaron.devore at gmail.com> wrote:
> Gentoo's CPython package gives python, python2, python3, python2.x,
> and python3.x. Gentoo's PyPy package allows parallel PyPy versions by
> appending a version number. The names I listed would bring PyPy up to
> the level of CPython.

Sure, but the pypy equivalent of cpython is pypy-c.  You would
probably not want to have cpython and jython with the same name by
default, nor would you probably want to have pypy-c and pypy-jvm with
the same name.  The reason it matters is that applications may depend
on particular integration features, or not, in which case whatever
backend is available is fine.

-- 
William Leslie