From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Kost Subject: Re: Problems with downloading from https Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 22:08:08 +0300 Message-ID: <87ioj1e5pj.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87fveboseq.fsf@gnu.org> <87oasxj2z1.fsf@netris.org> <87ioj566pv.fsf@gnu.org> <8761f5zlph.fsf@gmail.com> <87fve9po7v.fsf@yeeloong.lan> <87y4s1zdjl.fsf@gnu.org> <871tptzclb.fsf@gmail.com> <87mw8glixr.fsf@gnu.org> <20141029222212.GD29707@debian> <87bnouf24g.fsf@gmail.com> <20141030170541.1141.14634@rook.local.tld> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43353) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XkE9u-0004lq-CO for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 11:31:58 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xjv4r-0002kC-T5 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Oct 2014 15:08:18 -0400 Received: from mail-la0-x22c.google.com ([2a00:1450:4010:c03::22c]:33097) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xjv4r-0002jF-Kd for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Oct 2014 15:08:09 -0400 Received: by mail-la0-f44.google.com with SMTP id gf13so5052924lab.3 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2014 12:08:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20141030170541.1141.14634@rook.local.tld> (Ian Denhardt's message of "Thu, 30 Oct 2014 13:05:41 -0400") 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-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ian Denhardt Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Ian Denhardt (2014-10-30 20:05 +0300) wrote: > Quoting Alex Kost (2014-10-30 03:27:59) >> As both python packages can co-exist in one profile, either python-2=E2= =80=A6 >> may be renamed into =E2=80=9Cpython2=E2=80=9D or python-3=E2=80=A6 into = =E2=80=9Cpython3=E2=80=9D. As python3 >> is the future, I think it would be better to have =E2=80=9Cpython2=E2=80= =9D and =E2=80=9Cpython=E2=80=9D >> (which is python3) packages. Or maybe they shouldn't be renamed and we >> can introduce a little collision instead by adding "=E2=80=A6/bin/python" >> symlink to python-3=E2=80=A6 package. > > Speaking as someone who's been on a distro that has python 3 as the > default since 2.7 came out, and being a professional python developer > working on codebases that often don't work on python 3, I don't really > consider this a sensible default. I often have a symlink ahead of the > system python binary in my path that points to python2. More > importantly, I think it should be tunable. I *do* sometimes make use of > having both available. This is what you currently have: you can install both, and "python" would be a link to "python2". But installing 2 packages with the same name is not intended (to prevent file names collision), so I think it would be better to rename one of the pythons into "python2"/"python3". --=20 Alex