New submission from Ronald Oussoren <ronaldousso...@mac.com>: The default "install" target in the toplevel makefile for python 3.x behaves like the "altinstall" target in python 2.x. This behaviour was choosen to avoid conflicts between python 3.x and python 2.x installations.
IMO this is no longer needed, "make fullinstall" can coexist nicely with Python 2.x because the binaries that get installed for Python 3.x are named differently than those in Python 2.x. Furthermore the "fullinstall" target is what most users will actually want to use: that install the 'unversioned' filenames. I therefore propose to renamed the "install" target in Python 3.x to "altinstall" and to rename the "fullinstall" target to "install". ---------- assignee: benjamin.peterson messages: 87980 nosy: benjamin.peterson, ronaldoussoren severity: normal status: open title: "install" target in python 3.x makefile should be "fullinstall" type: behavior versions: Python 3.1 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6047> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
