On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 08:20:44PM +0200, Petr Cech wrote: > On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 01:05:27PM +0200 , Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > Under debian there exists separated packages for python and python2, but > > do not exists alternatives that can configure which executable start > > when launching 'python'. > > Why ? > as I see it, there is only ONE python and one python2, so ... > > P.S. note that I'm new to python so I probably don't' know some strange > > reason that giustify that choice. > licensing of 2.0 is too/more restrictive then 1.5 /usr/bin/python is a hard link to /usr/bin/python1.5; so why not make it a symlink and allow users to choose which version it points to using update-alternatives. The license issue might justify giving python1.5 a higher update-alternatives priority than python2; but I don't think it justifies removing the choice. -- Harry Henry Gebel West Dover Hundred, Delaware GPG encrypted email gladly accepted. Key ID: B853FFFE Fingerprint: 15A6 F58D AEED 5680 B41A 61FE 5A5F BB51 B853 FFFE
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