[arch-dev-public] [RFC] Python 3.3.0 and PEP 394

[Ray Rashif]

On 13 September 2012 12:18, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> On 13/09/12 10:00, Stéphane Gaudreault wrote:
>> Python 3.3.0 should be released around September 22. I would like to
>> take this opportunity to implement some of the recommendations of the
>> PEP 394 [1]. This PEP was mostly done in reaction to what Arch did to
>> the /usr/bin/python symlink (in summary, most python devs are against
>> the move to python3 as a default at this time).
>>
>> In short:
>> python2 should refer to some version of Python 2.x
>> python3 should refer to some version of Python 3.x
>> python should refer to the same target as python2 but may refer to
>> python3 on some bleeding edge distributions
>>
>> This means that we should never have a reference to '#!/usr/bin/python'
>> in any of our packages. All those reference should be changed to
>> /usr/bin/python2 to refer to Python 2.x and /usr/bin/python3 for Python
>> 3.x. The idea here is that a system without any python symlink should
>> work without problem. Maybe namcap could be used to detect wrong shebang ?
>
> This is necessary as far as I am concerned.

And you have also been mentioning this from as far back as I can
remember since the move. Therefore I would assume this is not (going
to be) a problem if we have been listening.

So now do we simply remove the python symlink and leave it up to the users?


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