On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 2:48 PM Miro Hrončok <mhron...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 27. 06. 19 18:49, Ben Cotton wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 12:06 PM Miro Hrončok <mhron...@redhat.com> > wrote: > >> > >> So I might ask: What's the benefit of not having an unversioned python > at all? > >> > > Avoiding ambiguity. Admittedly, it's avoiding large future pain at the > > cost of small-and-frequent current pain. I'm not sure it's Fedora's > > place to drive that mindset shift, particularly if upstream is taking > > the opposite approach. > > To be fair, upstream allows us to choose. If we decide that we want > "python" > command not to exists, it's a valid choice. > > As Python maintainers, we want to make it python3. If Fedora decides that > removing it is a better way, we have the ability to do that. > > I'd argue that it brings more problems. Such as: Should there also be no > "pip", > no "pytest", no "pylint"... command? Or should we switch those to Python > 3, but > just have no "python" command? What happens if users do "dnf install > python"? > Should they get Python 3 or nothing? etc. > > Either way, we really **need** "python" to no longer be Python 2. There > are > still people "out there" who call Python 2 the "default Python" because > that's > what you get when you type "python". > As an outsider to the Python community, not having any binary or package that responds to the expected name "python" would be a disaster. -Dan
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