On 04.11.2010 21:12, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote:
To clarify (but I dont speak for the rest of #python, just myself), I think the move was premature, but I don't use Arch and I don't know what typical Arch users expect. The reason I think it's premature is that 'python2' just doesn't work everywhere, and I would have gone for a transitionary period where '/usr/bin/python' is something that screams loudly that it shouldn't be used before it executes 'python2'.
Iirc, it was an explicit decision made at the 2009 language summit not to introduce a python2 symlink, but using python3 for python3.x instead. Debian/Ubuntu don't ship a python2 symlink by intent.
Did the plans change, i.e. are there plans to provide a python symlink for python 3.x altinstall in a future release, e.g in 3.4 or 3.5?
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