Re: favouring Python3 in the Debian policy
On May 08, 2014, at 06:41 AM, Ben Finney wrote:
>Can we converge on a single way to represent the names of these systems
>in the document? Currently there seems to be “python3”, “Python3”,
>“Python 3” used indiscriminately, without being clear why they would be
>spelled differently like that.
>
>I'd prefer to have:
>
>* “Python” as the name of the Python system at no specific version;
>
>* “Python 2” and “Python 3” where the version does matter;
And if more detail is necessary, "Python 3.4" or "Python 2.x".
>* “python” or “python3” for the name of the runtime interpreter;
If an interpreter path is required, "/usr/bin/python3", "/usr/bin/python2", or
"/usr/bin/python3.4".
>* “Python2” and “Python3” never used.
+1
-Barry
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