[Python-ideas] Changing the default install location, script versioning (Packages and PEP 370)

[Antoine Pitrou]

Jesse Noller <jnoller at ...> writes:
> 
> The reason being, is that what if I also have python
> 2.7 (which i do) installed, as well as python 3.1 and the
> release-which-will-not-be-named (3.0) - if I install that same package
> into one of the other versions, a new binary would be written with the
> same name - a script-pythonversion might also be installed, but the
> fact that the original script was overwritten seems broken to me.

A script is a script. What version of Python it runs with shouldn't be your (the
user's) concern. Do you have two Apache binaries, one compiled with gcc 3.x and
one compiled with gcc 4.x?

> I think the "best" fix for this is to make the bin/ directory mirror
> the lib layout - each version would get it's own bin directory:
> 
> .local/
>     bin/
>         python2.6/
>         python3.1/

-1. The point of .local/bin is that it's (supposedly) standard, so that you have
only one path to add to $PATH. Putting scripts in versioned subdirectories
totally defeats its purpose.