[Python-ideas] Making -m work for scripts

[Ram Rachum]

Thanks!

On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 10:13 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 12 June 2015 at 06:31, Andrew Barnert via Python-ideas
> <python-ideas at python.org> wrote:
> > But if we're going to do something big, I'd prefer to just make it
> easier to specify a custom script suffix in distutils.cfg and encourage
> distros/users/third-party Pythons/etc. to use that if they want to make
> multiple Pythons easy to use, instead of using different directories. Then
> you'd just run `nosetests_pypy3` vs. `nosetests3` or `nosetests_jy2` vs.
> `nosetests2` or `nosetests_cust3.4` vs. `nosetests3.4` or whatever. (Mainly
> because that's what I do manually; I have a wrapper around pip that
> symlinks any installed scripts into /usr/local/bin with a suffix that
> depends on the wrapper's name, and symlink a new name for each Python I
> install. I'm not sure if anyone else would like that.)
>
> Armin Ronacher's pipsi should already make it possible to do:
>
>     pypy -m pip install pipsi
>     pypy -m pipsi install nose
>
> In theory, that should give you a nosetests in ~/.local/bin that runs
> in a PyPy virtualenv (I haven't actually tried it though).
>
> "Should the default Python on Linux be a per-user configuration
> setting rather than a system wide symlink?" was also a topic that came
> up at this year's language summit (see
> https://lwn.net/Articles/640296/, especially the straw poll results at
> the end ), so it's likely a proposal along those lines will happen at
> some point during the 3.6 development cycle.
>
> Cheers,
> Nick.
>
> --
> Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia
>
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