On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 12:53:27PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: > On 10/21/20 12:06 PM, DJ Lucas via blfs-dev wrote: > > On October 21, 2020 11:25:42 AM CDT, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev > > <blfs-dev@lists.linuxfromscratch.org> wrote: > > > Currently we have /usr/bin/python -> python2. Is it time to change > > > that > > > to python3? > > > The requirements are met at this point I think, only a handful of packages > > left now. Anything using only python2, that depends on the link will need > > patch/sed. > > I'll note that we have 56 references to python2 in the book right now. Some > pages have a couple of references so that is a slight overcount. Checking > all those pages will require a significant effort. > > If a package can use p2 or p3, we might want to remove the reference to p2. > > -- Bruce >
It is probably time to start looking at this. Unfortunately, I know that my normal desktop builds all use gimp2 so I build python2 very early in BLFS. Unfortunately, I can't schedule any time for preparing to test this at the moment. Changing python to python3 will probably cause breakage in a few obscure or barely-used packages for a few weeks (or months), so arguably starting sooner will find more of them before our next release. Meanwhile I'll mention that node-js v14 (which can use python3) will move into LTS around the 27th of this month. I've been using v14 for a while now, to show willing, but I'll also mention that trying to update from a previous version to current on anything except a fully up to date system can fail with what look like C++ scope errors from g++ (e.g. on BLFS-10, although my experimental build this month was fine). But since we mostly care about having everything up to date, only a (perhaps intermittent) problem for those of us who have not updated everything ;-) ĸen -- The people next door oppress me all night long. I tell them: I work all day, a man's got to have some time to learn to play the tuba. That's oppression, that is. [ Guards! Guards! ] -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
