What's not included in "some newer releases" here? /usr/bin/python2 has been present on all systems I've used except Debian.
- Kerrick On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Scott Kitterman <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Kerrick Staley <[email protected]> wrote: > >Thanks! > > > >The upstream recommendation (from PEP 394 [1]) is that, going forward, > >portable scripts *can't* assume python is python2, and *should* use > >python2. > > > >- Kerrick > > > >[1] http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/ > > I'm very familiar with it. > > Now we get to Arch is insane. > > They've put developers in a difficult spot. They have to choose between > /usr/bin/python2 and works on Arch and some newer releases and > /usr/bin/python and works everywhere except Arch. > > The only suggestion I can make is that it's generally not that hard for > new code to make it work for both python2.7 and python3.3. Then there's no > need to care. > > Scott K > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [email protected] > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > >
