At 20:51 -0700 04/18/2009, Steven Bethard wrote: >On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Benjamin Peterson <benja...@python.org> >wrote: >> 2009/4/18 Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com>: >>> I see a few options: >>> 1. Abandon the "python" name for the 3.x series and commit to calling it >>> "python3" now and forever (i.e. actually make the decision that Mitchell >>> refers to). >> >> I believe this was decided on sometime (the sprints?). > >That's an unfortunate decision. When the 2.X line stops being >maintained (after 2.7 maybe?) we're going to be stuck with the "3" >suffix forever for the "real" Python. > >Why doesn't it make more sense to just use "python3" only for >"altinstall" and "python" for "fullinstall"?
Just use python3 in the shebang lines all the time (where applicable ;), as it is made by both altinstall and fullinstall. fullinstall also make plain "python", but that is not important. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynel...@georgeanelson.com> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
