Yo Eric! On Thu, 3 Sep 2020 06:37:07 -0400 "Eric S. Raymond" <e...@thyrsus.com> wrote:
> Gary E. Miller via devel <devel@ntpsec.org>:
> > > I don't want to go down this road. I have ugly memories
> > > associated with a smiliar hack in gpsd, long ago.
> >
> > But what about how it works now? All the maintainers like it.
>
> Oh dear Goddess. We are *still* mutating shebangs in GPSD? I must
> have blotted that from my memory.
No, we are *finally* mutating python shebangs in GPS.
> One reason to stop doing this kind of thing is library-path confusion.
Say what? This has zero to do with libraries.
> Yes, I know we have a lash-up that barely works around that in GPSD
> but our Debian package maintainer damn near has an aneurism any time
> he thinks about it and I can't blame him a bit.
Which is why what you are talking about got removed, with something the
maintainers like.
> It will come time to end Python 2 support in GPSD soon.
For some definition of "soon". The last Python 2 release is barely 2
months old. I can't get distros to use newer then 3 year old gpsd. They
seem to think that software mellows sitting on the disk.
RGDS
GARY
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