Re: Bits from the Debian PyCon Hangout - /usr/bin/python
On Wednesday, April 15, 2015 02:16:58 PM Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Apr 15, 2015, at 12:24 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> >Maybe I'll mellow over time, but currently my thinking is that if there's
> >an upload to point /usr/bin/python at a python3, it will be immediately
> >followed by one where I remove myself from being maintainer. It's an idea
> >that can only cause pain.
>
> There aren't any plans or even interest in doing that any time soon, so you
> don't get off Scott free (har har, groan) yet. Let's see what happens in
> 2020 when official upstream support for Python 2.7 ends.
Then I don't understand why the whole s/python/python2// plan in the shebangs
helps anything. As long as both exist, it's a no-op.
Scott K
P.S. It would be nice if there would be a PEP that says to never ever do
this. I know it would make Arch have a sad, but they'll get over it.
Reply to: