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

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Wed Mar 2 21:18:38 CET 2011 
On Mar 02, 2011, at 02:49 PM, James Y Knight wrote:

>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...

Seems like it's straying into new feature territory to me, but then I'm not
the 2.7 RM.  OTOH, if it really does help Python 3 adoption, it might be worth it.

-Barry
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