INSTALL.adoc

Fred Wright fw at fwright.net
Tue Apr 1 18:11:53 UTC 2025


On Tue, 1 Apr 2025, James Browning via devel wrote:
> On Monday, March 31, 2025 8:52:30 PM Pacific Daylight Time Hal Murray via
> devel wrote:

>> buildprep has some python2 cruft.  I ignored it.
>> Should we announce that it no longer works for python 2 and clean it up a
>> bit?
>
> Don't let Fred, Gary or the ancient Python 2 users hear that.

I presume he was only referring to buildprep, and not the project in 
general.  It's not clear how important it is to explain to users how to 
set up aspects of a proper Python installation that have nothing to do 
with the project.

BTW, at some point (not necessarily right now), could we rename 
'buildprep' so that it doesn't have an annoying command-line completion 
conflict with 'build'?

Fred Wright


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