From: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Python 3 binaries
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2013 17:30:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130831153018.GA5442@debian> (raw)
Hello,
python 3 does not ship a python binary any more, just a binary called
python3. That could be useful, since it would allow to install python 2 and 3
side by side. However, all packages relying on a shebang substitution with
a python binary now fail.
I see two general possibilities to solve the problem:
- The simplest one, add a symlink python->python3 in the python 3 package.
But then we lose the possibility of installing python 2 and 3 at the same
time. Which maybe does not matter? It would only be a problem for a user
wanting to install both in the user profile, while all other packages
would internally have rewritten their calls to either of the two python
versions
- In the patch-shebang phase, we could, if the python binary is not
available, look for the python 3 binary. But that would mean special code
only for python.
Personally, I would tend to the first solution. But what do you think?
Andreas
next reply other threads:[~2013-08-31 15:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-31 15:30 Andreas Enge [this message]
2013-08-31 17:30 ` Python 3 binaries Cyril Roelandt
2013-08-31 18:20 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-09-01 9:28 ` Andreas Enge
2013-09-01 10:03 ` Andreas Enge
2013-09-01 14:03 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-09-01 14:39 ` Andreas Enge
2013-09-01 17:34 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-09-01 17:40 ` Cyril Roelandt
2013-09-01 18:21 ` Andreas Enge
2013-09-01 17:50 ` Andreas Enge
2013-09-02 6:24 ` Brandon Invergo
2013-09-08 18:35 ` Andreas Enge
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2013-09-01 8:20 Brandon Invergo
2013-09-01 13:49 ` Andreas Enge
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