[gentoo-python] Re: Naming of PyPy and PyPy3 executables

[Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>]

On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Let's open an official discussion about this.
>
>
> First of all, what happens on Gentoo. The PyPy's build process creates
> an executable named 'pypy-c'. We install it with this name, and symlink
> as /usr/bin/pypy-cX.Y for each PyPy version. We don't do any 'common'
> wrapper for PyPy.
>
> Upstream's packaging scripts, however, rename the 'pypy-c' executable
> to 'pypy'. All other distros I have checked (Arch, Debian, Fedora,
> Ubuntu) install a single /usr/bin/pypy for them. They don't support
> multiple versions though.
>
> At the point, it seems reasonable to drop our '-c' addition and just
> use 'pypyX.Y' (+ 'pypy') instead. We could do this starting with 2.1
> but...
>
>
> Since v2.1, PyPy has been 'split' into PyPy and PyPy3, the former being
> Python2 variant and the latter Python3. Both share the same versions
> (that is, there's PyPy 2.1 and PyPy3 2.1).
>
> From what floppym checked, the build process builds plain 'pypy-c'
> as well. Alike regular PyPy, upstream's scripts rename it to 'pypy'.
>
> Since PyPy3 is still in beta, only Arch Linux has packages for it. It
> installs a single /usr/bin/pypy3 (what a surprise).
>
>
> This raises the question: how should we name our PyPy executables?
> While I really like the 'pypyX.Y' idea, I don't really want to see
> 'pypy32.1' :). We could go for 'pypy-X.Y' and 'pypy3-X.Y' but that would
> be inconsistent with CPython (pythonX.Y) and Jython (jythonX.Y0).
> A somehow ugly alternative would be to use 'pypy-cX.Y' and 'pypy3-cX.Y'
> but that is quite a custom invention.
>
> Your thoughts?
>

How about pypypy2.1? ;-)

Sorry, I couldn't resist.