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Re: Problems with downloading from https
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Alex Kost |
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Re: Problems with downloading from https |
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Thu, 30 Oct 2014 22:08:08 +0300 |
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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…
>> may be renamed into “python2” or python-3… into “python3”. As python3
>> is the future, I think it would be better to have “python2” and “python”
>> (which is python3) packages. Or maybe they shouldn't be renamed and we
>> can introduce a little collision instead by adding "…/bin/python"
>> symlink to python-3… 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".
--
Alex
- Re: Problems with downloading from https, (continued)
- Re: Problems with downloading from https, Alex Kost, 2014/10/27
- Re: Problems with downloading from https, Ludovic Courtès, 2014/10/28
- Re: Problems with downloading from https, Andreas Enge, 2014/10/29
- Re: Problems with downloading from https, Alex Kost, 2014/10/30
- Re: Problems with downloading from https, Andreas Enge, 2014/10/30
- Re: Problems with downloading from https, Alex Kost, 2014/10/31
- Re: Problems with downloading from https, Andreas Enge, 2014/10/31
- Different versions of a package in the same profile?, Ludovic Courtès, 2014/10/31
- Re: Problems with downloading from https, Alex Kost, 2014/10/31
- Re: Problems with downloading from https, Ian Denhardt, 2014/10/31
- Re: Problems with downloading from https,
Alex Kost <=
- Re: Problems with downloading from https, Ian Denhardt, 2014/10/31
- Re: Problems with downloading from https, Ludovic Courtès, 2014/10/31
- Re: Problems with downloading from https, Ludovic Courtès, 2014/10/31
- Re: Problems with downloading from https, Alex Kost, 2014/10/27
- Re: Problems with downloading from https, Mark H Weaver, 2014/10/27
Re: Problems with downloading from https, Ludovic Courtès, 2014/10/25