On Saturday, May 7, 2016 11:39:32 AM WEST Georg Baum wrote: > I am unsure about building LyX where "python" is python 3. We fixed some > build scripts to work both with python 2 and 3, but maybe there are others > that don't work with python 3 yet. Assuming that Helge confirms the fix for > configure.py and it gets in, I would suggest to change the sentence to
The only place where python is python3 is in Arch. Arch was the first distribution to make this change and because of the lessons learned it was issued PEP-394 (PEP == Python Enhancement Proposal) https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/ Right at the abstract it says: * for the time being, all distributions should ensure that python refers to the same target as python2 . * however, end users should be aware that python refers to python3 on at least Arch Linux (that change is what prompted the creation of this PEP), so python should be used in the shebang line only for scripts that are source compatible with both Python 2 and 3. -- José Abílio
