bin/python3 symlink for python3X ports

[Chris Rees]

On 13 Dec 2012 18:01, "Li-Wen Hsu" <lwhsu at 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,   wrote:
> > > On 10/5/12 9:23 AM,   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 another
> >   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