Anybody using the old waf?

Gary E. Miller gem at rellim.com
Fri Mar 28 19:49:17 UTC 2025


Yo Hal!

On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 21:41:11 -0700
Hal Murray via devel <devel at ntpsec.org> wrote:

> > There are definitely systems with python3 and no python. Eg, Debian
> > 12 for example.   
> 
> Some (most?) distros have a tiny package that sets up python to go to 
> python3.

In gentoo, it is automatic.  You can change which Python is "python"
with "eselect python list".

Python officially recommends having python set to something.  Doing
otherwise is just anarchy.

RGDS
GARY
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