[Python-3000] should Python 3's executable install as 'python'?

Martijn Faassen faassen at startifact.com
Wed Mar 5 12:42:39 CET 2008


Oleg Broytmann wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 11:28:22AM +0000, Paul Moore wrote:
>> There was a discussion on this list not long ago, under the title
>> "Namespaces are one honking great idea". You might want to look at
>> that. I don't recall any conclusion being reached, though.
> 
>    AFAIR the conclusion was: use "make altinstall" instead of "make install".

Not that I actually *READ* the README file before installing, but there 
is only a single rather hint in the build instructions in README that 
altinstall exists, and it doesn't say what it does.

Regards,

Martijn





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