In article <captjjmpfyoxnp-1w2-_8riaoz30w2lsz5q7ky4fbpc-bpmv...@mail.gmail.com>, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well, it only *became* contrary to recommended practice in response to > Arch doing it and everyone seeing the issues it caused :) Personally, > I'm glad they did. Lets those of us who follow "slower" distros (I'm > running Debian) get the benefit of someone else's hindsight.
Well, many people thought that the problems caused by changing "python" to mean "python3" at this stage in its lifecycle were so obvious that there was no need to formalize them in a PEP. Arch proved us wrong, hence PEP 394. http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/ -- Ned Deily, n...@acm.org -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
