Re: Please install /usr/bin/python2

2013-09-15 Thread anatoly techtonik
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 7:25 PM, Scott Kitterman deb...@kitterman.com wrote: The only suggestion I can make is that it's generally not that hard for new code to make it work for both python2.7 and python3.3. I do not agree. -- anatoly t. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Please install /usr/bin/python2

2013-09-15 Thread anatoly techtonik
On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 12:55 PM, anatoly techtonik techto...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 7:25 PM, Scott Kitterman deb...@kitterman.com wrote: The only suggestion I can make is that it's generally not that hard for new code to make it work for both python2.7 and python3.3. I do

Re: Please install /usr/bin/python2

2013-09-15 Thread anatoly techtonik
On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 1:24 PM, anatoly techtonik techto...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 12:55 PM, anatoly techtonik techto...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 7:25 PM, Scott Kitterman deb...@kitterman.com wrote: The only suggestion I can make is that it's generally not

Re: Please install /usr/bin/python2

2013-09-15 Thread Lachlan
i'm not an expert by any means but i fail to see how this is an issue? -Everyone wrote scripts for python 2.x using /usr/bin/python -With python3, scripts were written specifically for python3 using /usr/bin/python3 When Debian eventually changes to python3 by default all the scripts will be

Re: Please install /usr/bin/python2

2013-09-15 Thread Ben Finney
Lachlan lachlan...@gmail.com writes: i'm not an expert by any means but i fail to see how this is an issue? In short: Debian is not the only Unix-like system where Python is installed, and consistency across operating systems is valuable. -Everyone wrote scripts for python 2.x using

Re: Please install /usr/bin/python2

2013-09-15 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 15 September 2013 07:53, Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Lachlan lachlan...@gmail.com writes: Not all of them, and the expectation is that more and more systems will assume “/usr/bin/python” is the current version of Python. I haven't seen any evidence that anyone except Arch

Re: Please install /usr/bin/python2

2013-09-15 Thread Kerrick Staley
Scott, I booted up a CentOS 6.4 VM, and the symlink is there (runs python2.6). I'd be interested to know if there are any other systems where it's unavailable though. - Kerrick On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Scott Kitterman deb...@kitterman.comwrote: Kerrick Staley

Re: Please install /usr/bin/python2

2013-09-15 Thread Scott Kitterman
Kerrick Staley kerr...@kerrickstaley.com wrote: Scott, I booted up a CentOS 6.4 VM, and the symlink is there (runs python2.6). I'd be interested to know if there are any other systems where it's unavailable though. OK. I think that convinces me it's widely enough spread we ought to fix this

Re: Please install /usr/bin/python2

2013-09-15 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Sunday, September 15, 2013 14:34:27 Scott Kitterman wrote: Kerrick Staley kerr...@kerrickstaley.com wrote: Scott, I booted up a CentOS 6.4 VM, and the symlink is there (runs python2.6). I'd be interested to know if there are any other systems where it's unavailable though. OK. I think

Re: Please install /usr/bin/python2

2013-09-15 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 09:53:41PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: Lachlan lachlan...@gmail.com writes: i'm not an expert by any means but i fail to see how this is an issue? In short: Debian is not the only Unix-like system where Python is installed, and consistency across operating systems is