[Python-Dev] [PEPs] Rebooting PEP 394 (aka Support the /usr/bin/python2 symlink upstream)

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 23:16:55 +0200
Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> 
> I think the recommendation should be symbolic links for all systems.
> Hard links are generally harder to discover, while it is trivial to
> find out that a given file is a symbolink link, and to which other file.
> The optimization is probably not useful in the real world (our
> executables are relatively small, and people worried about a couple of
> megabytes can always go for the shared library option).

Oh, I don't even know why I thought hard links would be a size
optimization anyway. I guess I thought "file copy" instead of "symbolic
link".

Regards

Antoine.