Re: Python 3 binaries

[Cyril Roelandt]

On 08/31/2013 05:30 PM, Andreas Enge wrote:
> 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

I think lots of users would want that. On Debian, I really like having 
multiple versions of Python, since some of my scripts are not Python3 
compatible. It's also useful to run test suites against many versions of 
Python. I think users must be able to install both.

Cyril.