Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 18:25:46 +0000 From: Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> To: Li-Wen Hsu <lwhsu@freebsd.org> Cc: =?UTF-8?B?756k75+O75+K75+U75+S75+K75+LIO+esu+fiu+fg++fge+fme+fhu+fj++fjO+fkA==?= <mitya@yandex-team.ru>, python@freebsd.org, Ruslan Mahmatkhanov <cvs-src@yandex.ru> Subject: Re: bin/python3 symlink for python3X ports Message-ID: <CADLo839YV8XAAe_1N7RtM8r5Da46OcuPTC=FoZRMr5k%2BcOwqwg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20121213180120.GA83924@FreeBSD.cs.nctu.edu.tw> References: <5062C5CB.4060109@yandex.ru> <5062C769.6090305@FreeBSD.org> <5062C8CE.701@yandex.ru> <5062E478.8020000@FreeBSD.org> <CAKBkRUxThcF3amNLBazkkdd2s9ce73u_J=q3o2EvpyLhL4GnfQ@mail.gmail.com> <506436DB.90408@FreeBSD.org> <20121001173946.GB4939@FreeBSD.cs.nctu.edu.tw> <506E6EEC.5030209@yandex-team.ru> <50748254.5030409@yandex-team.ru> <20121013132503.GA49101@FreeBSD.cs.nctu.edu.tw> <20121213180120.GA83924@FreeBSD.cs.nctu.edu.tw>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On 13 Dec 2012 18:01, "Li-Wen Hsu" <lwhsu@freebsd.org> wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 21:25:03 +0800, Li-Wen Hsu wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 00:00:20 +0400, =EF=9E=A4=EF=9F=8E=EF=9F=8A=EF= =9F=94=EF=9F=92=EF=9F=8A=EF=9F=8B =EF=9E=B2=EF=9F=8A=EF=9F=83=EF=9F=81=EF= =9F=99=EF=9F=86=EF=9F=8F=EF=9F=8C=EF=9F=90 wrote: > > > On 10/5/12 9:23 AM, =EF=9E=A4=EF=9F=8E=EF=9F=8A=EF=9F=94=EF=9F=92=EF= =9F=8A=EF=9F=8B =EF=9E=B2=EF=9F=8A=EF=9F=83=EF=9F=81=EF=9F=99=EF=9F=86=EF= =9F=8F=EF=9F=8C=EF=9F=90 wrote: > > > > On 01.10.2012 21:39, Li-Wen Hsu wrote: > > > >> > > > >> Thanks for working on this, I am looking forward to your patch. > > > >> > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > Please consider the attached patch for python2/python3 symlinks. > > > > As I proposed earlier in this thread, I think it is sane to make these > > > > symlinks > > > > for latest python2.X/python3.X versions only (this is what people should > > > > use by > > > > default in most cases). > > > > > > > > And let people explicitly run older versions if they really need them. > > > > > > Should I treat your silence as 'no objection'? > > > > I have no objection, we're toward the same direction, and here is my patch: > > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~lwhsu/patch/python-major-version-link.diff > > > > Which does following things: > > > > - Remove "first-win" logic in Makefile, this generates conflicting > > packages. If we really need this, it should be implemented in anothe= r > > way. > > > > - Create symbolic links as PEP 394 [1] suggests. ${DEFAULT_PYTHON_VERSION} > > will create python and python${MAJOR_VERSION} links, for current default, > > python2.7 will create: python -> python2 -> python2.7 > > > > - Introduce PYTHON3_DEFAULT_VERSION, which will handle bin/python3 link= . > > It is a bit hacky, but I don't have better idea at this point. > > And we might still need to change this to PYTHON2_DEFAULT_VERSION > > when we change default version to 3.x. > > > > I think it has better to be committed after freeze. Meanwhile, if you > > really want to have bin/python{2,3} in the tree, I would not object you > > commit your patch, since they are not conflicting. > > > > How does everyone think? > > > > [1] http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/ > > I'll commit the patch this weekend. Thank you for tracking this. Chris
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?CADLo839YV8XAAe_1N7RtM8r5Da46OcuPTC=FoZRMr5k%2BcOwqwg>