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

[Nick Coghlan]

On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Mark Hammond <mhammond at skippinet.com.au> wrote:
> I think this discussion should be divorced from this PEP and taken up with
> the discussion about the PATH and the "last installed wins" issue Martin
> mentions - only all of them taken together will "fix" this issue - not that
> I personally consider it particularly broken - more like "sub-optimal" :)

I updated the draft PEP, explicitly bringing Mac OS X and Cygwin
within the scope of the recommendation, and excluding PYTHON*
environment variable considerations and Windows-related proposals. The
Windows section does include a hit-list that may serve as a useful
starting point if someone else felt like starting a Windows specific
PEP, though.

I believe the only remaining decision to be made is whether we
actually change the "make install" command and the Mac OS X installers
for Python 2.7.2, or leave them alone and tell the distro folks to fix
it on their side of the fence. My own vote is a +1 for both, since
changing "make install" is fairly easy, and Ronald indicated earlier
in the thread that not only is the change to the Mac OS X installer
pretty trivial, but that Apple are likely to follow the lead of
whatever our default installer does.

Full PEP: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/
Diff to previous version:
http://svn.python.org/view/peps/trunk/pep-0394.txt?r1=88743&r2=88753

Cheers,
Nick.

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