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"?
Note that such an approach would then require an altaltinstall command in order to be able to install a specific version of python 3.x without changing the python3 alias (e.g. installing 3.2 without overriding 3.1). Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ 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
