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No “.guix-profile/bin/python” after ‘guix package -i python’

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From: Mathieu Lirzin <mthl <at> gnu.org>
To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>
Cc: 30437 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#30437: No “.guix-profile/bin/python” after ‘guix package -i python’
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 20:38:44 +0100

Hi,

Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org> writes:

> On Mon, 12 Feb 2018 17:52:41 +0100
> Mathieu Lirzin <mthl <at> gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> I think it would work better if when installing python <at> 3, a ‘python’
>> executable would be available in the PATH.  Maybe there is a technical
>> reason for not doing so, but I find its absence rather confusing.
>
> For backward compatibility, the 'python' executable always has to be Python 2.
>
> A lot of old scripts specify just "/usr/bin/env python" in the shebang.
>
> On the other hand if your script supports Python 3 you know it.

Hum, then I don't understand why we aren't applying this argument to
every interperter (Perl, Guile, ...) which introduce backward
incompatible changes?

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Mathieu Lirzin
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