Re:Show HN: Xmake, a modern C/C++ build utility
by lasagnaphil on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @09:53AM
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On the contrary, Arch Linux has ‘python’ as Python 3 and ‘python2’ as Python 2. Although most of the Linux users are on Ubuntu, you can’t ignore those other distributions.
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Re:Show HN: Xmake, a modern C/C++ build utility
by pfranz on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @02:57PM
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Arch was what I had in mind as an OS that jumped the gun against the advice of the Python devs (at least that's a simplified history). I thought there was another distro, but I wasn't sure if they had rolled that back.
To the point of the comment thread, that would only be an issue if you're maintaining a Python 2 codebase and using modern Arch. If you're creating a Python 3 codebase you're likely calling `python3` and even calling `python` isn't a problem for you.