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[Python-Dev] Support the /usr/bin/python2 symlink upstream

James Y Knight foom at fuhm.net
Wed Mar 2 20:49:14 CET 2011 
On Mar 2, 2011, at 12:14 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> I don't have a problem with adding such a symlink, and I think it should be
> done by Informational PEP, not Standards Track PEP.  Since there will be no
> Python 2.8, our own build system shouldn't ever be changed to add such a link,
> but we can recommend it for consistency among distros, which would be free to
> adopt it or not.

Why not? 2.7 is supposed to be in long term maintenance mode. Surely if it's a good idea for everyone else to ship a python2 binary, 2.7.next should also install it when building from source...

James
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