On 6/28/19 2:48 AM, Gerald Henriksen wrote:
On Thu, 27 Jun 2019 16:09:58 -0400, you wrote:

On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 2:52 PM Dan Book <gri...@gmail.com> wrote:

As an outsider to the Python community, not having any binary or package that responds to 
the expected name "python" would be a disaster.

Can you expand on that? As I understand it, most things that are
calling for "python" now are expecting that to be "python2". So when
it becomes "python3", they'll break anyway. So why perpetuate a
pattern that's not future-proof (for some values of "proof")?

Because it's not about what some python code expects, it about what
the human being using Fedora expects.

Nobody trying to compile a C program expects to have to use gcc9, they
just expect to type in gcc.

This.

On my home computer I was able to get rid of python-unversioned-command and symlinked ~/bin/python to /usr/bin/python3, so whenever I need python I get what I want and not the about-to-retire piece of history, ah the sanity.

On my work laptop I still run into needing /usr/bin/python -> python2 every now and then, unfortunately. Eagerly waiting for the day when it starts pointing to python3 instead.

        - Panu -
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