bin/python3 symlink for python3X ports

Dmitry Sivachenko demon at FreeBSD.org
Thu Sep 27 11:28:34 UTC 2012


On 26.09.2012 17:00, Li-Wen Hsu wrote:
>
> I think this patch is good.  And I am thinking about also modifying
> other lang/python{2,3}X ports, thus we may need to beware of
> confliction on bin/python{2,3} between lang/python2X or lang/python3X
> ports.  It is not so common but still possible to have more then one
> lang/python2X or lang/python3X ports installed.  Maybe we can use the
> same logic of bin/python installation (first wins).
>
> Li-Wen
>


I beleive that the vast majority of python[23] users will be fine with the 
latest version of the relevant branch.
Considered that and also not to over complicate things I propose to make 
python2/python3 symlink only for the latest version: python2 -> python2.7
and python3 -> python3.2 for now.

And leave python31, python25, python26 untouched.  Users who really need older 
versions of python should explicitly require python version during startup.

If it is OK for you, I can work out the final patch.


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