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I don't see how it screws over experts. I can still install a different version if I want to in exactly the same number of steps as before, right?

• asveikau 7y ago
  I could very easily see a scenario in which your own version has a conflict with the official one. For example maybe you need to get really careful about where the install stub is on PATH. The possibility of a built-in one not being what you want adds a whole category of issues that wouldn't surface before. Maybe also those alternative ways of packaging die out due to lack of interest.
  • BoiledCabbage 7y ago
    If someone is an expert, and can't re-order path variables, then someone isn't an expert.
    • asveikau 7y ago
      Use your imagination. Sometimes the machines are not set up and maintained by you. Sometimes you write scripts and run them far away. Sometimes someone else's script mucks with PATH. Now there is an ambiguity about which python runs. Ask folks who ran into this with an old release installed by default, as in a Mac. Some of them appear to be on the thread.