Am Mittwoch, 29. März 2017 um 14:50:46, schrieb José Abílio Matos <jama...@lyx.org> > On Wednesday, 29 March 2017 13.19.23 WEST Kornel Benko wrote: > > So, should we make python3 be the default for lyx2.3? > > We want it to work as well as it works python 2. If it is the default or not > I > have no strong opinion. > > > There is one task remaining. Creation of lyxrc.defaults uses string 'python' > > as executable even if lyx is configured for use with python3. > > I agree that this could change. > > > I had to edit this file to get the desired python3 to run the converts. > > (Example: \converter fig pstex "python -tt > > $$s/scripts/fig2pstex.py $$i $$o" "") > > Honestly here I suggest us to change this automatically for users. > If the first command is python we should change it to the python version > configured. If the user wants to use a different python version the user is > free to use say "python2 -tt ..." > > For example in my system where python is python2 I have: > $ ll /usr/bin/python > lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 7 Jan 12 18:00 /usr/bin/python -> python2 > $ ll /usr/bin/python2 > lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 9 Jan 12 18:00 /usr/bin/python2 -> python2.7 > > And that has been like this for ages. :-) > > > Kornel
yes, it is the same here. But I don't want to change the symbolic link because it may influence some other programs. Instead I'd prefer to have an option to tell lyx to use python3 for handling of lyx-local python scripts. Kornel
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