On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 3:45 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote: >>> I believe we agreed at the language summit last year (or maybe even the >>> year before) that "python" would always be python2.x, and "python3" >>> would be python3.x. >>> >>> And by "always" we indeed meant forever. To do otherwise would break >>> scripts even many, many years from now. >> >> It sounds like the distributions aren't going to cooperate with us. >> Arch has already switched. Gentoo will allow the user to switch >> /usr/bin/python to point to python3, and I suspect this will become >> the default at some point. >> >> I'm not sad about that, myself. > > Neither am I. I personally also disagree with the decision taken at > the language summit (and believe that the language summit is no place > to make such decisions).
I don't recall which side I was on at the time, but now I agree we should try to encourage distros to use python2 for Python 2.x and python for whatever they like to promote. I think a PEP would help, but in this case I would request that before the PEP gets written (it can be a really short one!) somebody actually go out and get consensus from a number of important distros. Besides Barry, do we have any representatives of distros here? -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ 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
