Alternatives for python versions

2016-05-30 Thread Avram Lubkin
I wasn't able to find much recent discussion on this, but I'm a bit frustrated that there is so much manual work being done creating symlinks when a system already exists for that. It seem many projects which support both python2 and python3 are depending on a hardcoded shebang, install order, or

Re: Problems with scripts in a common spec file

2016-05-30 Thread Tomas Orsava
Hi! On 05/27/2016 07:44 PM, John Dennis wrote: On 05/27/2016 10:10 AM, Tomas Orsava wrote: I think the python2-XXX package in the examples is missing something like this: Requires: %{_bindir}/sample-exec Make sense? I believe there is a misunderstanding. In your first message you said "But

Re: Reg- binclock porting from python 2 to python 3

2016-05-30 Thread Tomas Orsava
Hi Rajesh! the `binclock` project is a bit problematic. As you can see in the note on the left side on the PortingDB, the upstream for this project is abandoned, emails bounce. If you go look into the Bugzilla link on the same page, you'll also find that someone has made a Python 3 patch, but

Re: Reg- binclock porting from python 2 to python 3

2016-05-30 Thread Charalampos Stratakis
Hello, As it seems there is already an open bug regarding this package [0] The patch that is posted there ports binclock to python 3 however the maintainer hasn't responded as of yet. So the porting work has already been done basically, as a downstream patch at least, only the changes need to b