On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 at 15:07, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think linking python->python3 is a bit premature. We should do that when > upstream python does, or most packages expect it, but not only one. ATM, a lot > of packages, which can accept P3, can still accept python2.7, and expect > python to point to python2.7. And packages bound to P2 expect usually python > to point to python2.x. That may change within a year or so (when P2 is not > maintained anymore). > > Pierre
I think that's probably the right approach, and indeed, from my understanding of what the Xen folk have done, they have brought some older Python 2 scripts up to a level where Python 3 can run them, as opposed to creating Python 3-only scripts. Having said that, my attempts to build Xen with just a python3 binary do appear to have brought some Python-related issues to the surface for the Xen developers, so attempting to build it under LFS has been useful in exposing some of the assumptions they have been making, even if they could get away with things if a "bare python" existed. Kevin -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
