Re: [Python-Dev] Bilingual scripts

2013-05-30 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 30 May 2013 04:40, "Barry Warsaw" wrote: > > On May 29, 2013, at 01:01 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > > >PEP 432 is also related, as it includes the "pysystem" proposal [1] > >(an alternate Python CLI that will default to -Es behaviour, but is > >otherwise similar to the standard "python" interprete

Re: [Python-Dev] Bilingual scripts

2013-05-29 Thread Barry Warsaw
On May 29, 2013, at 01:01 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: >PEP 432 is also related, as it includes the "pysystem" proposal [1] >(an alternate Python CLI that will default to -Es behaviour, but is >otherwise similar to the standard "python" interpreter). I *knew* this was being specified somewhere, but I

Re: [Python-Dev] Bilingual scripts

2013-05-29 Thread Barry Warsaw
On May 28, 2013, at 12:23 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: >> Note that the Gentoo example also takes into account versions that might act >> differently based on the interpreter's implementation. So a -python3 suffix >> may not be enough. Maybe now we're getting into PEP 425 compatibility tag >> terr

Re: [Python-Dev] Bilingual scripts

2013-05-29 Thread Barry Warsaw
On May 28, 2013, at 08:02 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: >On Tue, 28 May 2013 13:27:18 -0400 >Barry Warsaw wrote: >> On May 25, 2013, at 09:53 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: >> >> >How about always running the version specific targets, e.g. >> >nosetests-2.7? >> >> We have nosetests-2.7 and nosetests3 in

Re: [Python-Dev] Bilingual scripts

2013-05-28 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 5:23 AM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 01:22:01PM -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote: >> On May 27, 2013, at 11:38 AM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: >> >> >- If upstream doesn't deal with it, then we use a "python3-" prefix. This >> >matches with our package naming

Re: [Python-Dev] Bilingual scripts

2013-05-28 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/28/2013 05:52 PM, R. David Murray wrote: > On Tue, 28 May 2013 12:17:49 -0400, Tres Seaver > wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 05/28/2013 11:41 AM, R. David Murray wrote: >>> I have the same complaint about setupt

Re: [Python-Dev] Bilingual scripts

2013-05-28 Thread R. David Murray
On Tue, 28 May 2013 12:17:49 -0400, Tres Seaver wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 05/28/2013 11:41 AM, R. David Murray wrote: > > I have the same complaint about setuptools entry-point scripts, where > > I still haven't figured out how to go from what is in the file

Re: [Python-Dev] Bilingual scripts

2013-05-28 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 01:22:01PM -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote: > On May 27, 2013, at 11:38 AM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > > >- If upstream doesn't deal with it, then we use a "python3-" prefix. This > >matches with our package naming so it seemed to make sense. (But > >Barry's point about l

Re: [Python-Dev] Bilingual scripts

2013-05-28 Thread Daniel Holth
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > On May 28, 2013, at 01:57 PM, Daniel Holth wrote: > >>Wheel has no mechanism for renaming scripts (or any file) based on the >>Python version used to install. Instead you would have to build >>python-version-specific packages for each desired

Re: [Python-Dev] Bilingual scripts

2013-05-28 Thread Barry Warsaw
On May 28, 2013, at 01:57 PM, Daniel Holth wrote: >Wheel has no mechanism for renaming scripts (or any file) based on the >Python version used to install. Instead you would have to build >python-version-specific packages for each desired script name. Note that I'm not trying to borrow any impleme

Re: [Python-Dev] Bilingual scripts

2013-05-28 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Tue, 28 May 2013 13:27:18 -0400 Barry Warsaw wrote: > On May 25, 2013, at 09:53 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > >How about always running the version specific targets, e.g. > >nosetests-2.7? > > We have nosetests-2.7 and nosetests3 in /usr/bin, but we generally recommend > folks not use these,

Re: [Python-Dev] Bilingual scripts

2013-05-28 Thread Daniel Holth
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > On May 25, 2013, at 03:12 AM, Chris McDonough wrote: > >>You probably already know this, but I'll mention it anyway. This >>probably matters a lot for nose and pyflakes, but I'd say that for tox >>it should not, it basically just scripts exec

Re: [Python-Dev] Bilingual scripts

2013-05-28 Thread Barry Warsaw
On May 25, 2013, at 03:12 AM, Chris McDonough wrote: >You probably already know this, but I'll mention it anyway. This >probably matters a lot for nose and pyflakes, but I'd say that for tox >it should not, it basically just scripts execution of shell commands. >I'd think maybe in cases like tox

Re: [Python-Dev] Bilingual scripts

2013-05-28 Thread Barry Warsaw
On May 25, 2013, at 09:53 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: >How about always running the version specific targets, e.g. >nosetests-2.7? We have nosetests-2.7 and nosetests3 in /usr/bin, but we generally recommend folks not use these, especially for things like (build time) package tests. It's harder to

Re: [Python-Dev] Bilingual scripts

2013-05-28 Thread Barry Warsaw
On May 27, 2013, at 11:38 AM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: >Fedora is a bit of a mess... we try to work with upstream's intent when >upstream has realized this problem exists and have a single standard when >upstream does not. The full guidelines are here: > >http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Pyt

Re: [Python-Dev] Bilingual scripts

2013-05-28 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/28/2013 11:41 AM, R. David Murray wrote: > I have the same complaint about setuptools entry-point scripts, where > I still haven't figured out how to go from what is in the file to the > code that actually gets called. Hmm, just dump the 'entr

Re: [Python-Dev] Bilingual scripts

2013-05-28 Thread Barry Warsaw
On May 25, 2013, at 06:17 AM, Chris McDonough wrote: >I'm curious if folks have other concrete examples of global bindir >executables other than nosetests and pydoc that need to be disambiguated >by Python version. I'd hate to see it become standard practice to >append "3" to scripts generated by

Re: [Python-Dev] Bilingual scripts

2013-05-28 Thread Barry Warsaw
On May 25, 2013, at 05:57 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: >It seems to me the existing recommendation to use ``#!/usr/bin/env >python`` instead of referencing a particular binary already covers the >general case. The challenge for the distros is that we want a solution >that *ignores* user level virtual e

Re: [Python-Dev] Bilingual scripts

2013-05-28 Thread R. David Murray
On Tue, 28 May 2013 11:35:00 -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote: > On May 24, 2013, at 04:23 PM, R. David Murray wrote: > > >Gentoo has a (fairly complex) driver script that is symlinked to all > >of these bin scripts. The system then has the concept of the > >"current python", which can be set to python

Re: [Python-Dev] Bilingual scripts

2013-05-28 Thread Barry Warsaw
On May 24, 2013, at 04:23 PM, R. David Murray wrote: >Gentoo has a (fairly complex) driver script that is symlinked to all >of these bin scripts. The system then has the concept of the >"current python", which can be set to python2 or python3. The default >bin then calls the current default inte

Re: [Python-Dev] Bilingual scripts

2013-05-27 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 05:57:28PM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote: > On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 5:56 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > > Have any other *nix distros addressed this, and if so, how do you solve it? > > I believe Fedora follows the lead set by our own makefile and just > appends a "3" to the script

Re: [Python-Dev] Bilingual scripts

2013-05-25 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 8:17 PM, Chris McDonough wrote: > On Sat, 2013-05-25 at 17:57 +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote: >> I think the simplest thing to do is just append the "3" to the binary >> name (as we do ourselves for pydoc) and then abide by the >> recommendations in PEP 394 to reference the corr

Re: [Python-Dev] Bilingual scripts

2013-05-25 Thread Chris McDonough
On Sat, 2013-05-25 at 17:57 +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote: > I think the simplest thing to do is just append the "3" to the binary > name (as we do ourselves for pydoc) and then abide by the > recommendations in PEP 394 to reference the correct system executable. I'm curious if folks have other concre

Re: [Python-Dev] Bilingual scripts

2013-05-25 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 5:56 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > Have any other *nix distros addressed this, and if so, how do you solve it? I believe Fedora follows the lead set by our own makefile and just appends a "3" to the script name when there is also a Python 2 equivalent (thus ``pydoc3`` and ``py

Re: [Python-Dev] Bilingual scripts

2013-05-25 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Fri, 24 May 2013 15:56:29 -0400 Barry Warsaw wrote: > Here's something that seems to come up from time to time in Debian. > > Take a Python application like tox, nose, or pyflakes. Their executables work > with both Python 2 and 3, but require a #! line to choose which interpreter to > invoke

Re: [Python-Dev] Bilingual scripts

2013-05-25 Thread Chris McDonough
On Fri, 2013-05-24 at 15:56 -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote: > Here's something that seems to come up from time to time in Debian. > > Take a Python application like tox, nose, or pyflakes. Their executables work > with both Python 2 and 3, but require a #! line to choose which interpreter to > invoke.

Re: [Python-Dev] Bilingual scripts

2013-05-24 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 10:23 PM, R. David Murray wrote: > Gentoo has a (fairly complex) driver script that is symlinked to all > of these bin scripts. The system then has the concept of the > "current python", which can be set to python2 or python3. The default > bin then calls the current defa

Re: [Python-Dev] Bilingual scripts

2013-05-24 Thread R. David Murray
On Fri, 24 May 2013 15:56:29 -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote: > Have any other *nix distros addressed this, and if so, how do you solve it? > It would be nice if we could have some cross-platform recommendations so > things work the same wherever you go. To that end, if we can reach some > consensus, I

[Python-Dev] Bilingual scripts

2013-05-24 Thread Barry Warsaw
Here's something that seems to come up from time to time in Debian. Take a Python application like tox, nose, or pyflakes. Their executables work with both Python 2 and 3, but require a #! line to choose which interpreter to invoke. When we add Python 3 support in Debian for such a script, all t