Re: Please install /usr/bin/python2

2013-09-15 Thread anatoly techtonik
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 7:25 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > The only suggestion I can make is that it's generally not that hard for new > code to make it work for both python2.7 and python3.3. I do not agree. -- anatoly t. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: Please install /usr/bin/python2

2013-09-15 Thread anatoly techtonik
On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 12:55 PM, anatoly techtonik wrote: > On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 7:25 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: >> The only suggestion I can make is that it's generally not that hard for new >> code to make it work for both python2.7 and python3.3. > > I do not agree. I mean that generally

Re: Please install /usr/bin/python2

2013-09-15 Thread anatoly techtonik
On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 1:24 PM, anatoly techtonik wrote: > On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 12:55 PM, anatoly techtonik > wrote: >> On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 7:25 PM, Scott Kitterman >> wrote: >>> The only suggestion I can make is that it's generally not that hard for new >>> code to make it work for b

Re: Please install /usr/bin/python2

2013-09-15 Thread Lachlan
i'm not an expert by any means but i fail to see how this is an issue? -Everyone wrote scripts for python 2.x using /usr/bin/python -With python3, scripts were written specifically for python3 using /usr/bin/python3 When Debian eventually changes to python3 by default all the scripts will be writ

Re: Please install /usr/bin/python2

2013-09-15 Thread Ben Finney
Lachlan writes: > i'm not an expert by any means but i fail to see how this is an issue? In short: Debian is not the only Unix-like system where Python is installed, and consistency across operating systems is valuable. > -Everyone wrote scripts for python 2.x using /usr/bin/python And eventua

Re: Please install /usr/bin/python2

2013-09-15 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 15 September 2013 07:53, Ben Finney wrote: > Lachlan writes: > Not all of them, and the expectation is that more and more systems will > assume “/usr/bin/python” is the current version of Python. I haven't seen any evidence that anyone except Arch has any intention to do that. Jeremy -- To

Re: Please install /usr/bin/python2

2013-09-15 Thread Kerrick Staley
Scott, I booted up a CentOS 6.4 VM, and the symlink is there (runs python2.6). I'd be interested to know if there are any other systems where it's unavailable though. - Kerrick On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > > Kerrick Staley wrote: > >What's not included in "some n

Re: Please install /usr/bin/python2

2013-09-15 Thread Scott Kitterman
Kerrick Staley wrote: >Scott, I booted up a CentOS 6.4 VM, and the symlink is there (runs >python2.6). I'd be interested to know if there are any other systems >where >it's unavailable though. OK. I think that convinces me it's widely enough spread we ought to fix this for Wheezy. I'll take i

Re: Please install /usr/bin/python2

2013-09-15 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Sunday, September 15, 2013 14:34:27 Scott Kitterman wrote: > Kerrick Staley wrote: > >Scott, I booted up a CentOS 6.4 VM, and the symlink is there (runs > >python2.6). I'd be interested to know if there are any other systems > >where > >it's unavailable though. > > OK. I think that convinces m

Re: Please install /usr/bin/python2

2013-09-15 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 09:53:41PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > Lachlan writes: > > i'm not an expert by any means but i fail to see how this is an issue? > In short: Debian is not the only Unix-like system where Python is > installed, and consistency across operating systems is valuable. Yes, it

Re: Please install /usr/bin/python2

2013-09-15 Thread anatoly techtonik
On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Lachlan wrote: > i'm not an expert by any means but i fail to see how this is an issue? > > -Everyone wrote scripts for python 2.x using /usr/bin/python > -With python3, scripts were written specifically for python3 using > /usr/bin/python3 > > When Debian eventual