Nick Coghlan writes: > 3. Change the shebang lines in Python standard library scripts to be > version specific and update release.py to fix them all when bumping the > version number in the source tree.
+1 I think that it's probably best to leave "python", "python2", and "python3" for the use of downstream distributors. ISTR that was what Guido concluded, in the discuss that led to Python 3 defaulting to altinstall---it wasn't just convenient because Python 3 is a major change, but that experience has shown that deciding which Python is going to be "The python" on somebody's system just isn't a decision that Python should make. Sure, the difference between Python 2 and Python 3 is big enough to be a hairy nuisance 95% of the time, while the difference between Python 2.5 and Python 2.6 is so only 5% of the time. But the fact is that incompatibilities arise with a minor version bump, too, and all the major distros that I know about have some way to select the default Python version that will be "python". That's not because they want to distinguish between Python 2 and Python 3, nor between Python 2 and Python 1. _______________________________________________ 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
