Python support policy

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Richard!

On Wed, 2 Sep 2020 14:14:43 -0500
Richard Laager via devel <devel at ntpsec.org> wrote:

> >> Proposed: We should drop support for Python 2 and use a python3
> >> shebang in all our scripts.  
> 
> Yes, please.

We will have to agree to disagree.  Unless you want to support all the
resulting support comlaints?

> > And which "python3 shebang" would you suggest?  Last gpsd release
> > uncovered that still no distros agree on that. gpsd gave up and
> > made the python shebang a build option.  
> I think it was "supposed" to be /usr/bin/python3.

Never been that way on Gentoo, never will be.  So, for the love of
the Goddess, NO.  Also not valid on most distos.

I suggest you spend some time with PEP 394:

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/#recommendation

Then look at how often it changes.

> The most likely to work is probably this:
> #!/usr/bin/env python3

Not on Gentoo!

> But yeah, I would make it a build option. waf presumably knows where
> Python is, since it is running in Python.

On  many distors, like Gentoo, the building Python is not always the target
python.

RGDS
GARY
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