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Subject: Re: bin/python3 symlink for python3X ports
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On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 17:51:12 -0400, Eitan Adler wrote:
> 
> Random thought:   can we make 'python', 'python2', and 'python3' a
> simple C wrapper (you can't use a shell script because an interpreter
> can't be interpreted) that selects the correct version instead of a
> symlink?

I'm not sure we'll have much advantage from this, what's the magic you
proposed to do behind the "selects the correct version" ?

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