Yo Eric! On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 12:58:28 -0400 "Eric S. Raymond" <e...@thyrsus.com> wrote:
> Gary E. Miller via devel <devel@ntpsec.org>: > > On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 11:30:33 -0400 (EDT) > > "Eric S. Raymond via devel" <devel@ntpsec.org> wrote: > > > > > The shebang lines in our Python scripts point to "python". Part > > > of our standard tests check that you can change that to "python3" > > > without breaking anything. > > > > Uh, no, you break Gentoo. gentoo allows a user to have at least 7 > > different pythons installed at the same time. I alsmost always > > have 3 installed for testing. > > In that sentence "you" is the distro maintainer. Not us. Oh, so this will not apply to the release tar ball or git head? Fine. Distros can do what they want. > > Please leave the shebang as it is so I, gentoo users, and those of > > other OS, can change the Python interpreter to use at runtime. > > Right, that's exactly choice (b). I think maybe you read too quickly > and jumped to a wrong conclusion. Unless Mark weighs in with some > political consideration of which I wot not, we're not going to do > a damn thing about this. Great, then we agree to leave as it. RGDS GARY --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gary E. Miller Rellim 109 NW Wilmington Ave., Suite E, Bend, OR 97703 g...@rellim.com Tel:+1 541 382 8588 Veritas liberabit vos. -- Quid est veritas? "If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it." - Lord Kelvin
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