Python module mismatch

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Hal!

On Wed, 30 Jan 2019 18:33:21 -0800
Hal Murray via devel <devel at ntpsec.org> wrote:

> Gary said:
> > I installed for Python 2.7, then I installed for Python 3.6.  Then
> > I ran with python3.6, but my PYTHONPAATH was still for 2.7.   
> 
> Do typical installations run mixed python 2 and 3 like that, or is
> that only used for testing?

Very typical for Gentoo.  Gentoo stable and unstable installs Python
2.7 and 3.6 by default.

> I think the mixed case can be made to work with something like:
> 
> WHEN=`date +%s`
> puthon2 ./waf configure --build-epoch=$WHEN build install
> puthon3 ./waf configure --build-epoch=$WHEN build install

Interesting.

Or install an ntpmon2 and ntpmon3.

> Can we make waf smart enough to install both flavors?  I'm thinking
> of something like call out to the other python to find out where to
> install the python libraries and make the binaries.

The ntpsec ebuild for Gentoo installs multiple python modules.  I wonder if
this recent change broke that?

I try to stay away from the gentoo ebuilds for gpsd and ntpsec so I do
not confuse myself...

RGDS
GARY
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