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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