On 13 Dec 2012 18:01, "Li-Wen Hsu" <lw...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 21:25:03 +0800, Li-Wen Hsu wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 00:00:20 +0400, wrote: > > > On 10/5/12 9:23 AM, wrote: > > > > On 01.10.2012 21:39, Li-Wen Hsu wrote: > > > >> > > > >> Thanks for working on this, I am looking forward to your patch. > > > >> > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > Please consider the attached patch for python2/python3 symlinks. > > > > As I proposed earlier in this thread, I think it is sane to make these > > > > symlinks > > > > for latest python2.X/python3.X versions only (this is what people should > > > > use by > > > > default in most cases). > > > > > > > > And let people explicitly run older versions if they really need them. > > > > > > Should I treat your silence as 'no objection'? > > > > I have no objection, we're toward the same direction, and here is my patch: > > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~lwhsu/patch/python-major-version-link.diff > > > > Which does following things: > > > > - Remove "first-win" logic in Makefile, this generates conflicting > > packages. If we really need this, it should be implemented in another > > way. > > > > - Create symbolic links as PEP 394 [1] suggests. ${DEFAULT_PYTHON_VERSION} > > will create python and python${MAJOR_VERSION} links, for current default, > > python2.7 will create: python -> python2 -> python2.7 > > > > - Introduce PYTHON3_DEFAULT_VERSION, which will handle bin/python3 link. > > It is a bit hacky, but I don't have better idea at this point. > > And we might still need to change this to PYTHON2_DEFAULT_VERSION > > when we change default version to 3.x. > > > > I think it has better to be committed after freeze. Meanwhile, if you > > really want to have bin/python{2,3} in the tree, I would not object you > > commit your patch, since they are not conflicting. > > > > How does everyone think? > > > > [1] http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/ > > I'll commit the patch this weekend.
Thank you for tracking this. Chris _______________________________________________ freebsd-python@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-python To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-python-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
