On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 9:22 AM Richard Melville via lfs-dev <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 at 18:55, Jeremy Huntwork via lfs-dev <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 9:38 AM DJ Lucas via lfs-dev
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > No, Arch links python->Python3 which the developers say explicitly not
>> to do. Don't do that. That is one of my long-standing complaints about
>> Arch. :-)
>>
>> Do you have a link to that recommendation? I'm interested in
>> understanding upstream's thinking on that.
>>
>
> I would be interested in seeing that link too, because as far as I was
> aware Guido, before he stepped down, maintained that Python *was* Python3.
>

I was thinking the closest thing to an official position would be PEP-394:
   https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/
Basically it says, in light of what Arch does and that Python 2 will
eventually be phased out, that for now applications should call on...
   'python' only if compatible with Python 2 AND 3
   'python2' if compatible only with Python 2
   'python3' if compatible only with Python 3

- Jeff
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