#11549: Review dependencies on Python 2
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Reporter: pierre.labastie | Owner: blfs-book
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: x-future
Component: BOOK | Version: SVN
Severity: normal | Resolution:
Keywords: Python 2 |
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Comment (by ken@…):
Replying to [comment:49 pierre.labastie]:
> Well not sure it is practical to change the name of the python
executable on a running system. But for building, I suspect it could have
some use cases...
> (Ken has an interesting comment about gimp scripts written in python,
but he only sent it to the blfs-book mailing list)
Now that I'm on a system where current firefox is installed (to login to
the wiki!), and also a version of gimp-2.10, I'll give a little more
detail here:
Lots of gimp users seem to prefer python (i.e. python2) for scripting.
They seem to think that handling the vagaries of whitespace significance
is easier than dealing with scheme - actually, they might be onto
something there ;-)
I said that probably all of these scripts are external. In fact there are
a number shipped as standard in 2.10, including the python console itself
(bottom of the filters menu, 'Python-Fu') which is /usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-
ins/python-console/python-console.py. And all of the shipped scripts
start:
{{{
#!/usr/bin/env python2
}}}
So gimp really does want python2 available at runtime (indeed, it might
not even configure without it - I've never tried).
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