Re: bin/pip3.12 or bin/pip-3.12

[David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost>]

On Wed, 7 May 2025 at 09:26, Dr. Thomas Orgis
<thomas.orgis%uni-hamburg.de@localhost> wrote:
>
> [...detailed rationale...]
>
> So from my perspective, the right thing to do is to default to the
> dash, _except_ for
>
> python
> python-config
> pydoc
> pip
>
> Those have the lecacy and expectation of dash-less version suffix (or
> even infix). You break a lot of assumption by changing these. Please
> don't break established assumptions;-) Any new package will follow the
> more robust versioning, I presume. Maybe there's even a PEP thingie
> that explains the version suffix exceptions?
>
> Those exceptions should be noted as comments in the respective
> Makefiles, or maybe with a variable once a central mechanism for the
> version numbering is in place.

A possible variant - have dash for everything, but for those four
exceptions _also_ have a link from the version without the dash?

(I'm not familiar with the internals, so if this suggestion is
significant extra work then please note & discard :)

David