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

[Guido van Rossum]

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 3:31 AM, Oleg Broytmann <phd at phd.pp.ru> 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".

Actually I believe the conclusion was that "make install" should be
have like "make altinstall". Now that I think about it I believe there
should be *no* way to install it as just "python" -- that's just
encouraging people to do something dumb.

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