[arch-general] Python 3 Rationale?

[Matthew Gyurgyik]

  On 10/20/2010 11:45 AM, maxc wrote:
> There is an excellent post by Guido here, Hilton: 
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2008-February/011910.html
>
> Guido seems to favor using /usr/bin/python3.0 or /usr/bin/python3 and 
> /usr/bin/python as symlinks to the respective versions of Python.
>
> 'Perhaps we should only install "python3.0" and not "python".'
>
> We're not here to discussion semantics ofc. :) There is a much broader 
> concern which I hope we can address through friendly discourse.
>
> On Oct 20, 2010, at 11:26 AM, Hilton Medeiros 
> <medeiros.hilton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 10:58:42 -0400
>> Max Countryman <maxc at me.com> wrote:
>>
>> > That is fine unless the Python development team has decide that
>> > python3 will not become python.
>> >
>> > Python 2.7.x will be maintained for quite some time. (In excess of
>> > four more years.) Even after it is dropped in the future there's no
>> > indication that the python3 binary is intended to become the python
>> > binary.
>> >
>> > The link I posted earlier to the thread on the Python mailing list
>> > seems to indicate the opposite.
>>
>> A 'python' binary doesn't and won't ever exist, it is only a
>> symlink, Max.
Since you have seemed to miss my previous post. I'll post again!

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