["Martin v. Löwis", 2011-03-02] > > 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? > > Matthias Klose represents Debian, Dave Malcolm represents Redhat, > and Dirkjan Ochtman represents Gentoo.
I co-maintain with Matthias a package that provides /usr/bin/python symlink in Debian and I can confirm that it will always point to Python 2.X. We also do not plan to add /usr/bin/python2 symlink (and I guess only accepted PEP can change that) -- Piotr Ożarowski Debian GNU/Linux Developer www.ozarowski.pl www.griffith.cc www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: 1D2F A898 58DA AF62 1786 2DF7 AEF6 F1A2 A745 7645 _______________________________________________ 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
