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

[Guido van Rossum]

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
>  > I guess I wasn't clear -- I don't want there to be a target that does
>  > what install does today. It would be a mistake to use it in 99.99% of
>  > cases. IOW
>  >
>  >   install = altinstall
>
>  Leaving it up to packagers for the different distributions to decide if
>  they want to add the 'python' symlink? That sounds reasonable to me.
>
>  Does this apply to 2.6 as well, or just 3.0?

Only 3.0.

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