Hi -
On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 10:00:59AM +1000, Mark Goodwin wrote:
> [...]
> >With Fedora 23 shipping python3 only in default installs,
> >/usr/bin/python will not exist there.
>
> I would have hoped /usr/bin/python would still exist, and be the platform
> default (either python2 or python3).
Considering that they are incompatible, official python migration advice
has been not to confound the two by reusing the /usr/bin/python name.
> [...] we'd need to resort to configury at build time to explicitly
> use the default interpreter.
>
> That's pretty ugly IMO. we might be better off sticking with python2
> and tweaking the deps (as has already been done).
At least it's only ugly for us; for users it's lovely.
> Or perhaps we could create a pcp-python script that just execs the
> default interpreter, and use that everywhere (/me ducks, but maybe
> it's worth considering).
(FWIW, I'd advise for fewer rather than more pcp wrappers for normal
system utilities.)
- FChE
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