I thought the intention was to prioritize python 3.X which would cause problems using "python" first.
Yes ... but I feel strongly that we should try very hard not to break existing configure setups. It occurs to me that we could allow maintainers to specify p3-searching options in their configure.ac, like AM_PYTHON_OPTS(python3-check-first python-check-omit) (Or additional args to AM_PATH_PYTHON, whatever.) That wouldn't have any compatibility issues, and would allow maintainers to control what gets looked for, for packages that need to force python3. (Other options could force looking for p2 first.) Would that make sense? --thanks, karl.