[Python-Dev] PEP 394 request for pronouncement (python2 symlink in *nix systems)

[Ned Deily]

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<CADiSq7fg3Vgxd39teuvbCvhhmPKUwSS0qckSrfPKN5yE0dv3NQ at mail.gmail.com>,
 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> > Anyway, I don't think anyone is objecting against the PEP allowing symlinks 
> > now.
> 
> Yeah, the onus is just back on me to do the final updates to the PEP
> and patch based on the discussion in this thread. Unless life
> unexpectedly intervenes, I expect that to happen on Saturday (my
> time).
> 
> After that, the only further work is for Ned to supply whatever
> updates he needs to bring the 2.7 Mac OS X installers into line with
> the new naming scheme.

There are two issues that I know of for OS X.  One is just getting a 
python2 symlink into the bin directory of a framework build.  That's 
easy.  The other is managing symlinks (python, python2, and python3) 
across framework bin directories; currently there's no infrastructure 
for that.  That part will probably have to wait until PyCon.

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad at acm.org