Globally-visible executables with parallel python 2 and python 3 stacks

[David Malcolm]

On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 22:29 +0000, Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> 2010/1/14 David Malcolm <dmalcolm at redhat.com>:
> > Anyone got any better ideas?  Thoughts about which of the above is
> > preferrable?
> 
> I am not sure it qualifies as "better" than your suggestions... but
> the problem of different executables with the same name providing
> equivalent functionality via a different implementation is pretty much
> what the alternatives system is designed to deal with...

Thanks.  As I understand it, the alternatives system is a host-wide
configuration setting: only one set of things can be at use at a time on
a host; that seems too blunt for this, alas - I think people should be
able to use a mixture of programs written with both stacks.

Dave