Re: CLI recommendations for version-specific /usr/bin scripts

[Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 8:45 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry@debian.org> wrote:
> Am I missing anything?  Can anybody improve on those rules above?  Should we
> just adopt them as our standard recommendation (not requirement)?

I would also add this:

* Do not use version-specific scripts unless there is real need for that.

Nowadays when it's easy to get ‘python -m mymodule’ working, such
scripts are provided mostly for compatibility purposes and create more
problems than they solve.

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Dmitry Shachnev