[Python-Dev] Status of Python in the Red Hat 7.1 beta

[Bruce Sass]

On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Moshe Zadka wrote:
> On Wed, 07 Feb 2001 02:39:11 -0500, Guido van Rossum <guido@digicool.com> wrote:
> > The binaries should be called python1.5 and python2.0, and python
> > should be a symlink to whatever is the default one.
>
> No they shouldn't. Joey Hess wrote to debian-python about the problems
> such a scheme caused when Perl5.005 and Perl 5.6 tried to coexist.

Maybe that needs to be explained again, in real simple terms.
My understanding is that it was a problem with the programs not
properly identifying which version of Perl they need, if any.


- Bruce