I think that my only concern at this point is how the Python development team sees the future of the binary: if the python and python3 convention is kept I worry about the ease of portability apropos to development under Arch. For further in-depth discussion of the overall move the comments of the post on HN are excellent and illustrate clearly both sides. On Oct 20, 2010, at 9:52, Hilton Medeiros <medeiros.hilton@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 04:31:17 +0000 (UTC) Mithrandir <mithrandiragain@lavabit.com> wrote:
Max Countryman <maxc <at> me.com> writes:
I failed to find a reference, but I seem to remember the Python team
deciding at some point that they
intended to keep the name "python" for the Python 2.X binaries perpetually, and require Python 3.X to be invoked as "python3". Arch might be alone in making this change, and inconsistent with other Python distributions.
EDIT: I can't find a conclusive decision but here is one discussion on the subject: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2008-February/0...
There is any interesting conversation taking place over at Hacker News: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1808840
Ha ha! We posted at virtually the same time! (Or not...) :D
HackerNews, Slashdot, ...: - Someone post an announcement with 10 lines; - They read it (or not) and think that that is all the information behind the story; - They furiously start typing the first thing that pops in their mind; - By the time you (Mithrandir, in this case) posted a more in-depth post, the majority had already run to the next news.
Also, the... bitching there is completely nonsense. I can't believe they know Linux or even python well enough judging by what they say about developing _difficulties_ because of this move.
AFAIK, with python is easy as hell to build a local/virtual environment for any python version... I don't get it. Anyway, nothing to see there for this post, sadly.
Congratulations to Allan, devs and tus for the move!
Cheers, Hilton