Python support policy

[Richard Laager]

On 9/3/20 1:12 PM, Gary E. Miller via devel wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Sep 2020 02:30:43 -0500
> Richard Laager via devel <devel at ntpsec.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 9/2/20 7:44 PM, Gary E. Miller via devel wrote:
>>>> 1. Change waf's shebang:
>>>>      -#!/usr/bin/env python
>>>>      +#!/usr/bin/env python3  
>>>
>>> Uh, no.  That breaks Gentoo eselect.  
>>
>> How, specifically?
> 
> Bentoo allows the user to select his current Python, at runtime.  Trivially
> select his current Python.  This is great, sometimes I run 7 Python versions
> and flip between them quickly for testing.
Can you show me how that works?

1. Select (with eselect) Python 3.8 and run:
     python3 --version
2. Select Python 3.7 and run:
     python3 --version

-- 
Richard

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