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
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