Anybody using the old waf?

[Fred Wright]

On Fri, 28 Mar 2025, Matt Selsky wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 02:48:54PM -0700, Fred Wright via devel wrote:
>
>> I've confirmed that it works with Python 2.7, including building the
>> extension.  That means that shebanging it to 'python3' is inappropriate,
>> unless there are systems with a 'python3' command and no 'python' command.
>
> Hi Fred,
>
> There are definitely systems with python3 and no python. Eg, Debian 12 for example.
>
> What specifically is currently shebanged to python3 and maybe needs to be changed?

I'm referring to waf.  It's easily worked around, though technically not 
having a 'python' command is a bug, since code that works with both Python 
2 and Python 3 is supposed to use the more generic 'python' in the shebang 
line.  The absence of Python 2 doesn't change that.

Fred Wright