Python shebang policy

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Eric!

On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 12:58:28 -0400
"Eric S. Raymond" <esr at thyrsus.com> wrote:

> Gary E. Miller via devel <devel at ntpsec.org>:
> > On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 11:30:33 -0400 (EDT)
> > "Eric S. Raymond via devel" <devel at ntpsec.org> wrote:
> >   
> > > The shebang lines in our Python scripts point to "python".  Part
> > > of our standard tests check that you can change that to "python3"
> > > without breaking anything.  
> > 
> > Uh, no, you break Gentoo.  gentoo allows a user to have at least 7
> > different pythons installed at the same time.  I alsmost always
> > have 3 installed for testing.  
> 
> In that sentence "you" is the distro maintainer.  Not us.

Oh, so this will not apply to the release tar ball or git head?  Fine.

Distros can do what they want.

> > Please leave the shebang as it is so I, gentoo users, and those of
> > other OS, can change the Python interpreter to use at runtime.  
> 
> Right, that's exactly choice (b). I think maybe you read too quickly
> and jumped to a wrong conclusion.  Unless Mark weighs in with some
> political consideration of which I wot not, we're not going to do
> a damn thing about this.

Great, then we agree to leave as it.

RGDS
GARY
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