On Fri, 7 Nov 2025 at 10:04, Christian Marangi (Ansuel) <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > This is mostly feedback request on a change I would like to merge. > This is the PR in question [1]. > > It transition from using host python3 to compile one from source. > > The reason is simple. We had multiple times where things ""explode"" > as the symbolic link for python gets corrupted after a python version > update. > > This got even more relevant recently as they started to spam new > versions of python almost weekly. > > To solve this problem once and for all (also also have a more > predictable host tools) we compile python from source and > use our version directly without depending on the one present > on the host. > > The compilation increase is minimal and also we still provide an > option to use the previous implementation of using the host python. > > Is anyone against this change or do you find any problem? > > Feel free to give any opinion here, the main object of this is to stop > the periodic complain of "my buildroot installation broke and I > can't compile anything anymore"
I think this is a good idea, should avoid the constant catch-up. Regards, Robert > > [1] https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/10800 > > _______________________________________________ > openwrt-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
