Re: PY_RENAME_BINARIES

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Apr 01, 2026 at 10:44:51PM +0100, Leonardo Taccari wrote:
> Why is this foo-${PYVERSSUFFIX} and not foo${PYVERSSUFFIX}?

Because that is what we already use most of the time.

> I find that inconsistent with python* and most other ALTERNATIVES that
> just add a version suffix.

I don't think that's true.

Of the 78 files I have installed in bin matching *3.14, 72 match
*-3.14.

The outlier is Python itself, and I think we tried renaming them to -
at some point, got annoyed emails and reverted that.
 Thomas