Yo Richard! On Thu, 3 Sep 2020 02:30:43 -0500 Richard Laager via devel <devel@ntpsec.org> wrote:
> On 9/2/20 7:44 PM, Gary E. Miller via devel wrote:
> >> 1. Change waf's shebang:
> >> -#!/usr/bin/env python
> >> +#!/usr/bin/env python3
> >
> > Uh, no. That breaks Gentoo eselect.
>
> How, specifically?
Bentoo allows the user to select his current Python, at runtime. Trivially
select his current Python. This is great, sometimes I run 7 Python versions
and flip between them quickly for testing.
Hard coding the python version breaks this. If you want to know, read
up on "select python". Not a simple subject for the programmer, but
wonderful for the user. Your questions show you are looking at a tree,
not the forest.
This got done wrong for years with gpsd. Now the distros are happy
with gpsd. Why not just copy what works to EVERYONE'S satisfaction.
RGDS
GARY
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