What's the status of the work on shebangs and/or ctype?

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Richard!

On Thu, 17 Sep 2020 17:54:29 -0500
Richard Laager via devel <devel at ntpsec.org> wrote:

> On 9/17/20 11:54 AM, Gary E. Miller via devel wrote:
> > I agree with the first of 4 goals of the MR.  
> ...
> 
> > Rather than go around and around, how about a simple MR that only
> > implements goals 1 and 4?  
> 
> That is the first commit. I will merge that commit soon, barring any
> objections to that piece.

I just did.

> > The fallback, goal 4, is "/usr/bin/env python".  Does anyone
> > object to making that "/usr/bin/env python3"?  
> 
> I am in favor of that change. I'm happy to implement that in a
> follow-up commit.

We prolly need buy in from just the two of us.

> I would describe this change as "Make Python 3 the default". Should we
> do that now, or one release later? Any objections to now?

Either way works for me.  With --pyshebang now working I can easily
adjust to my taste.

RGDS
GARY
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