[Python-Dev] Support the /usr/bin/python2 symlink upstream

["Martin v. Löwis"]

>> I believe we agreed at the language summit last year (or maybe even the 
>> year before) that "python" would always be python2.x, and "python3" 
>> would be python3.x.
>>
>> And by "always" we indeed meant forever. To do otherwise would break 
>> scripts even many, many years from now.
> 
> It sounds like the distributions aren't going to cooperate with us.
> Arch has already switched.  Gentoo will allow the user to switch
> /usr/bin/python to point to python3, and I suspect this will become
> the default at some point.
> 
> I'm not sad about that, myself.

Neither am I. I personally also disagree with the decision taken at
the language summit (and believe that the language summit is no place
to make such decisions).

Regards,
Martin