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

[Brian Curtin]

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 16:04, Glenn Linderman <v+python at g.nevcal.com> wrote:
>
> Sadly, there seems to be strong resistance to the idea of putting the
> Python install directory on the Windows path, of course, without some
> additional solutions (python2.exe, python3.exe, etc.), that doesn't help the
> multi-version install, only the single version install.
>

FWIW, I plan on spending time on the PATH issue for 3.3. It seems like much
of the resistance could be quelled with actual code.

It would be _nice_, but harder, and harder to get consensus on, to write a
> little "python launcher" (in a compiled language, not Python, as that would
> double the startup time) to do some grunge on Windows.  Some possibilities,
> not all would be needed.
> <SNIP>
>
* Could also add .py24, .py31, or even .py262, .py301, etc., assoc and
> ftype, depending on how many versions of Windows Python are installed.
>

-INF
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