On Mar 2, 2011, at 12:14 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > I don't have a problem with adding such a symlink, and I think it should be > done by Informational PEP, not Standards Track PEP. Since there will be no > Python 2.8, our own build system shouldn't ever be changed to add such a link, > but we can recommend it for consistency among distros, which would be free to > adopt it or not.
Why not? 2.7 is supposed to be in long term maintenance mode. Surely if it's a good idea for everyone else to ship a python2 binary, 2.7.next should also install it when building from source... James _______________________________________________ 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
