[petsc-dev] python2 vs python3 wrt configure

[Åsmund Ervik]

On Thu, 24 Oct 2013, Satish Balay wrote:
>
>On Thu, 24 Oct 2013, Jed Brown wrote:
>>
>> Default installations of Python through python-2.6 do not contain
>> "python2", so those users will have to type:
>>
>>   $ python configure --args
>>
>> On Arch Linux, I always end up needing:
>>
>>   $ python2 configure --args
>
>Do you know if archlinux will switch over to using the guideline from python.org?
>

I sincerely doubt that archlinux will switch back, they've made python == python3 in all python scripts in the entire distro, which tooks quite some effort. There were some initial negative reactions, but that's three years ago now.

(I use archlinux on all my boxes.)

-- Åsmund Ervik