From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-pd0-f176.google.com ([209.85.192.176]:34668 "EHLO mail-pd0-f176.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750824Ab3FCDg1 (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Jun 2013 23:36:27 -0400 Received: by mail-pd0-f176.google.com with SMTP id r11so4970523pdi.7 for ; Sun, 02 Jun 2013 20:36:27 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2013 10:36:05 +0700 From: "Anh K. Huynh" To: Thomas Pedersen Cc: backports@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] backports: specify python2.7 for gentree.py Message-ID: <20130603103605.56ff3813@icy> (sfid-20130603_053629_702635_AD4EB738) In-Reply-To: References: <1370214733-29993-1-git-send-email-thomas@cozybit.com> <20130603070014.57b6119c@icy> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: backports-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sun, 2 Jun 2013 20:16:48 -0700 Thomas Pedersen wrote: > > FYI, on ArchLinux, `/usr/bin/python` is 3.0, and the old Python > > (installed by the package `python2`) uses `/usr/bin/python2`. > > python2.7 is also provided by the python2 package. Do you think asking > for python2 is a more portable solution? Yes on ArchLinux `/usr/bin/python2` is a symbolic link of `/usr/bin/python2.7`. Unless the script `gentree.py` requires `python2.7` strictly I think that using `python2` is more portable. CentOS is still using `python2.6` [1]. [1] http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6.4/os/x86_64/Packages/python-2.6.6-36.el6.i686.rpm -- I am ... 5 dog years old.