[Python-3000] Install python-3000 as python3

Smith-Rowland, Edward M ESmith-rowland at alionscience.com
Wed Nov 12 21:46:46 CET 2008


When I try to install python-3.0rcN I get the following warning:

running install_egg_info
Writing /usr/local/lib/python3.0/lib-dynload/Python-3.0rc2-py3.0.egg-info
* Note: not installed as 'python'.
* Use 'make fullinstall' to install as 'python'.
* However, 'make fullinstall' is discouraged,
* as it will clobber your Python 2.x installation.

Not clobbering my python-2.* install is all well and good.  python-3.0 is installed as expected.

It would be nice to have a generic way to call python-3 though.

Suggestion: Use python3 as the generic install target for python-3.*
Then all subsequent python-3.* installs would get sent there (in addition to python-3.m.n)

If no python2 exists you could either go ahead and use that for python3.
Or you could leave the python just for 2.

Ed


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