On Tuesday, 14 May 2019 19.17.56 WEST Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > On my self-build master LyX on windows 10, I get the error below when > reconfiguring. Python is 3.6. > > What is that? > > JMarc
Based on this I would like to suggest before 2.4 to modify the current python detection logic. Instead of using the first version we find, I would suggest to try first to detect python 3 and only then if it is not detected to search for python 2. The search logic can also be changed from searching for, e.g. on linux, instead of searching for (/usr/bin/)python we should search for either (/usr/ bin/)python3 or (/usr/bin/)python2 (they do exist if one of the versions is installed). 1) The first step is to change both cmake and autotols detection. 2) There is a second stage where we need to change configure.py (replacing the calls to python to python2 or python2 depending on the version of python called to run it). I can easily do 2) and I would like help to do 1). The advantage of this approach is that it works for places that only have python 2 installed. After lyx 2.4 is released I suggest to remove python 2 support from the code base. What do you think? Best regards, -- José Abílio
