Re: Bits from the Debian PyCon Hangout - /usr/bin/python
Hi Scott (2015.04.15_02:17:18_+0200)
> >Upstream Python's direction for Python paths is in favor of explicitly
> >numbered
> >/usr/bin/python2 and /usr/bin/python3. In support of this, rough
> >consensus in
> >the room is that /usr/bin/python should likely be removed *entirely*
> >from
> >shebangs (though not from the distro).
>
> Unless we are also removing /usr/bin/python, why does this matter?
> Unless there will be cases where /usr/bin/python2 exists while
> /usr/bin/python doesn't, I don't see what this does?
Very little. But it makes it clear that Python 2's days are numbered.
And opens the door to doing something else with /usr/bin/python, when
we've exorcised Python 2 from the archive.
Upstream cpython recommends this in PEP394, and other distros are
following suit. Alignment is useful, whether or not the change is a
massive win for us.
There's a long discussion in
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2014-September/136374.html
That didn't have much in the way of conclusion.
SR
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