Hi, On 27 February 2017 at 09:26, Tom Rini <tr...@konsulko.com> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 10:25:38AM -0500, Tom Rini wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 12:25:48AM +1100, Jonathan Gray wrote: >> > On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 07:41:34PM +0100, Paul Kocialkowski wrote: >> > > We now live in a world where python cannot be assumed to be python2. >> > > As a matter of fact, it is no longer the default for python on many >> > > GNU/Linux distributions. >> > > >> > > Running binman with python3 fails, so explicitly request python2 from >> > > env in the shebang for running it. >> > >> > On other systems such as OpenBSD the binary is python2.7 not python2 >> > or python. Though there isn't really a way to handle this with >> > how u-boot builds as I understand it (besides local patches). >> >> I thought, but could be wrong, that "python2" was the canonical way name >> for the python 2.x binary. > > So, I looked harder at this and found > https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/ which in sum, to me says it is > more reasonable to expect 'python2' to exist than it is to expect that > 'python2.7' exists (but is also possibly getting out of date as it > sounds like more than just Arch sets python to python3). > > That said, I also found issues that note that OSX (and as you note, > OpenBSD) do not do python2 but rather python2.7 and that the "best" > overall solution is to make the code compatible with python 2 and > python 3 so that 'python' is still the correct thing to look for. > > My inclination for this release is to keep the current behavior and hope > that for the next release someone has the time to make binman python2 > and python3 compatible. We do this today with 'patman' but that tool is > more optional than binman is and we certainly have the case today where > patman will fail if the user doesn't have the "future" package installed > in python. I almost wonder if making binman python3-only would be > easier.
I agree. I will make the time for this in a few weeks ,if someone doesn't kindly beat me to it. It should be possible to support both Python 2 and 3. Regarding the incompatibility of Python 2 and 3, I would like to add my approbation to the pile also. Regards, Simon _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/listinfo/u-boot
