From: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
To: Brandon Invergo <brandon@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Python 3 binaries
Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2013 15:49:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130901134949.GA5912@debian> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8738ppnebh.fsf@naga.invergo.net>
On Sun, Sep 01, 2013 at 10:20:18AM +0200, Brandon Invergo wrote:
> Here's what it looks like on my Parabola system, which I think is a sane
> way of doing it (ok, there's no *truly* sane way of doing it):
> $ ls -l /usr/bin/python*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1K May 21 17:50 /usr/bin/python -> python3
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1K May 21 17:50 /usr/bin/python-config -> python3-config
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1K May 12 18:01 /usr/bin/python2 -> python2.7
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1K May 12 18:01 /usr/bin/python2-config -> python2.7-config
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7K May 12 18:01 /usr/bin/python2.7
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2K May 12 18:01 /usr/bin/python2.7-config
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1K May 21 17:50 /usr/bin/python3 -> python3.3
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1K May 21 17:50 /usr/bin/python3-config -> python3.3-config
> -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 11K May 21 17:50 /usr/bin/python3.3
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1K May 21 17:50 /usr/bin/python3.3-config -> python3.3m-config
> -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 11K May 21 17:50 /usr/bin/python3.3m
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2K May 21 17:50 /usr/bin/python3.3m-config
This is more or less what happens now, with the default implicitly being
Python 2, since the Python 2 package ships a binary "python" and the Python 3
package ships a binary "python3". Since we promise to follow upstream as
closely as possible, it would make sense for us to keep this situation.
> Shebangs are routinely changed in Parabola to accommodate this but since
> shebangs are also routinely being changed in Guix anyway, this shouldn't
> be a problem.
This is what my patch that I sent previously to the list should accomplish.
Thanks for the input!
Andreas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-01 13:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-01 8:20 Python 3 binaries Brandon Invergo
2013-09-01 13:49 ` Andreas Enge [this message]
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2013-08-31 15:30 Andreas Enge
2013-08-31 17:30 ` 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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