Am Mittwoch, 29. März 2017 um 15:52:22, schrieb José Abílio Matos <jama...@lyx.org> > On Wednesday, 29 March 2017 15.25.12 WEST Kornel Benko wrote: > > > > 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. > > Actually here I meant to say not just that it could but the it *should* > change.
Cmake part is ready.
> > > > 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 $$o" "")
> >
> > > Honestly here I suggest us to change this automatically for users.
> > > If the first command is python we should change it to the python version
> > > configured. If the user wants to use a different python version the user
> > > is
> > > free to use say "python2 -tt ..."
> > >
> > > For example in my system where python is python2 I have:
> > > $ ll /usr/bin/python
> > > lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 7 Jan 12 18:00 /usr/bin/python -> python2
> > > $ ll /usr/bin/python2
> > > lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 9 Jan 12 18:00 /usr/bin/python2 -> python2.7
> > >
> > > And that has been like this for ages.
> >
> > yes, it is the same here. But I don't want to change the symbolic link
> > because it may influence some other programs.
> > Instead I'd prefer to have an option to tell lyx to use python3 for handling
> > of lyx-local python scripts.
>
> In case it was not clear I mean that we should do it inside lyx because the
> python2 and python3 names are *always* available.
>
> So in every place where we have the python name as the first command we
> should
> change it to python2 or python3, like if in a sense python meant $$python
> that
> we replace by the appropriate python name.
>
> This way it will work for everyone and someone that needs can pin the python
> version by directly placing the major version in front of the python name.
>
> I hope that this is clear now. :-)
>
> Regards,
Thanks for clarification. Yes, better as an option since it does not need user
intervention.
Kornel
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