From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Danny Milosavljevic Subject: Re: Question about (properties `((python2-variant . ,(delay XXX)))) and name resolution Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 23:10:35 +0200 Message-ID: <20160720231035.4e8eb65e@scratchpost.org> References: <20160719194754.254cf411@scratchpost.org> <20160720035823.GB21435@jasmine> <20160720092637.5813b122@scratchpost.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42679) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bPylQ-0000C6-T2 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jul 2016 17:10:45 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bPylM-0002gp-Od for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jul 2016 17:10:43 -0400 Received: from dd1012.kasserver.com ([85.13.128.8]:57410) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bPylM-0002ga-HD for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jul 2016 17:10:40 -0400 In-Reply-To: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Ricardo Wurmus Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hi, On Wed, 20 Jul 2016 12:15:34 +0200 Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > Ah, an executable. If this is not to be used as a library/module does > it even make sense to build it with different versions of Python? If > all you care about is the executables then having a variant with only > the latest version of Python seems sufficient. Not really. It is a Python REPL. You run it and then you write Python programs in it. The Python version it will run the REPL in is different - so also the Python version you write Python programs for.