I've read the thread.
We will not do shebang munging for Python versioning.
This is something for the distro packagers to do. I understand that it
makes some work for Debian (and thank you for doing that!), but I like the
Debian patch that does it: it's big, bright, clear and obvious what it's
Yo Eric!
On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 17:19:38 -0400
"Eric S. Raymond via devel" wrote:
> Richard Laager via devel :
> > On 03/20/2018 01:59 PM, Matthew Selsky wrote:
> > > Sorry, I'm confused. Why has this option been rejected?
> >
> > Eric S. Raymond just wrote, "I think your objection to having
Yo Richard!
On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 15:48:37 -0500
Richard Laager via devel wrote:
> On 03/20/2018 02:58 PM, Gary E. Miller via devel wrote:
> > How does it handle multiple Pythons at the same time?
>
> Python is a specific example of the generalized problem of wanting two
> different versions of
On 03/20/2018 02:58 PM, Gary E. Miller via devel wrote:
> How does it handle multiple Pythons at the same time?
Python is a specific example of the generalized problem of wanting two
different versions of the same software installed at the same time. That
generalized problem is solved by versionin
On 03/20/2018 02:02 PM, Gary E. Miller via devel wrote:
>> I would prefer to see a ./waf configure option (with the default being
>> some sort of autodetection). That is, I want to be able to do
>> something like this:
>>
>> ./waf configure --with-python=/usr/bin/python3
> It already does that.
It
On 03/20/2018 01:59 PM, Matthew Selsky wrote:
> Sorry, I'm confused. Why has this option been rejected?
Eric S. Raymond just wrote, "I think your objection to having waf futz
with them is sound."
> Also, Richard, as you speaking as a distro packager, or as an individual?
In this case, both. It
Yo Richard!
On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 13:55:20 -0500
Richard Laager via devel wrote:
> I would prefer to see a ./waf configure option (with the default being
> some sort of autodetection). That is, I want to be able to do
> something like this:
>
> ./waf configure --with-python=/usr/bin/python3
It a
On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 01:55:20PM -0500, Richard Laager via devel wrote:
> I would prefer to see a ./waf configure option (with the default being
> some sort of autodetection). That is, I want to be able to do something
> like this:
>
> ./waf configure --with-python=/usr/bin/python3
>
> Given th
I would prefer to see a ./waf configure option (with the default being
some sort of autodetection). That is, I want to be able to do something
like this:
./waf configure --with-python=/usr/bin/python3
Given that this option has been rejected, I think what you have is
reasonable.
--
Richard
Yo Eric!
On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 12:58:28 -0400
"Eric S. Raymond" wrote:
> Gary E. Miller via devel :
> > On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 11:30:33 -0400 (EDT)
> > "Eric S. Raymond via devel" wrote:
> >
> > > The shebang lines in our Python scripts point to "python". Part
> > > of our standard tests check t
Gary E. Miller via devel :
> On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 11:30:33 -0400 (EDT)
> "Eric S. Raymond via devel" wrote:
>
> > The shebang lines in our Python scripts point to "python". Part of
> > our standard tests check that you can change that to "python3" without
> > breaking anything.
>
> Uh, no, you b
Yo Eric!
On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 11:30:33 -0400 (EDT)
"Eric S. Raymond via devel" wrote:
> The shebang lines in our Python scripts point to "python". Part of
> our standard tests check that you can change that to "python3" without
> breaking anything.
Uh, no, you break Gentoo. gentoo allows a use
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