Hi, Thank you for the explanations.
All the best, simon On 23 February 2018 at 18:36, Leo Famulari <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 06:27:30PM +0100, zimoun wrote: >> I am asking if this behaviour is expected or if I miss something. >> >> The command: >> >> guix package -i python >> >> installs the python3 version and there is no python in .guix-profile/bin/. >> >> And in another profile `guix package -i python@2' installs the python2 >> and there is python in profile/bin/. >> >> >> To me, it is counter-intuitive. What is the reason ? >> And there is not any, since python 2 is dying, I suggest that python >> points to python3 and not python2. > > The recommendation by the CPython team, expressed in their build > scripts, is to install Python 3 as `python3`, and we try to follow > upstream as closely as we can. I'd guess their reason is long-term > compatibility with existing Python software that assumes `python` is > Python 2. > > We offer Python 3 as `python` in the special package python-wrapper. > > In general, Guix does default to Python 3. If you want to use Python 2 > in a package or profile, you have to specify it. Otherwise, using the > package named 'python' will give you Python 3. If there are several > versions of a Guix package with the same name, Guix uses the latest > version by default.
