-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Benjamin Peterson wrote: > 2009/4/18 Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com>: >> Benjamin Peterson wrote: >>> 2009/4/18 Mitchell L Model <mlmli...@comcast.net>: >>>> Some library files, such as pdb.py, begin with >>>> #!/usr/bin/env python >>>> In various discussions regarding some issues I submitted I was told that >>>> the >>>> decision had been made to call Python 3.x release executables python3. (One >>>> of the conflicts I ran into when I made 'python' a link to python3.1 was >>>> that some tools used in making the HTML documentation haven't been upgraded >>>> to run with 3.) >>>> >>>> Shouldn't all library files that begin with the above line be changed so >>>> that they read 'python3' instead of python? Perhaps I should have just >>>> filed >>>> this as an issue, but I'm not confident of the state of the plan to move to >>>> python3 as the official executable name. >>> That sounds correct. Please file a bug report. >> As Kevin pointed out, while this is a problem, changing the affected >> scripts to say "python3" instead isn't the right answer. >> >> All that happened with the Python 3 installers is that they do >> 'altinstall' rather than 'fullinstall' by default, thus leaving the >> 'python' alias alone. There is no "python3" alias unless a user creates >> it for themselves (or a distro packager does it for them). > > I've actually implemented a python3 alias for 3.1. > >> 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?).
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