On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 05:25:40PM +0100, José Matos wrote: > 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.
Georg or José, please feel free to make changes to the RELEASE-NOTES regarding Python if you think it would make things more clear. Scott
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