Gary E. Miller via devel <devel@ntpsec.org>:
> On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 11:30:33 -0400 (EDT)
> "Eric S. Raymond via devel" <devel@ntpsec.org> 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 user to have at least 7
> different pythons installed at the same time. I alsmost always have 3
> installed for testing.
In that sentence "you" is the distro maintainer. Not us.
> Please leave the shebang as it is so I, gentoo users, and those of other
> OS, can change the Python interpreter to use at runtime.
Right, that's exactly choice (b). I think maybe you read too quickly
and jumped to a wrong conclusion. Unless Mark weighs in with some
political consideration of which I wot not, we're not going to do
a damn thing about this.
I think your objection to having waf futz with them is sound.
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