On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 8:01 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <[email protected]> wrote: > It may be that the PEP becomes irrelevant before it is widely accepted: > if the sole remaining Python 2 version is 2.7, users may just as well > refer to python2 as python2.7.
My hope is that a clear signal from us supporting a python2 symlink for cross-distro compatibility will encourage the commercial distros to add such a link to their 2.6 based variants (e.g. anything with an explicit python2.7 reference won't run by default on RHEL6, or rebuilds based on that). Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com