Re: python2->python3 mass rebuild and auto tools
On 01. 08. 19 4:43, Steve Grubb wrote:
Audit. But is seems that autotools shoul hard code the old sematics
so that
all packages do the right thing. It seems that python3 equivalents have been
introduced. They do the right thing with the python migration. But there are
things that are expectd to defaulto python 2.
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/audit/pull-request/4
Autotools usually already does the right thing, aka choosing python2 if it
cannot find python. Using "python" in Fedora packages is forbidden anyway.
>> Should they be hardcoded to mean python2 in autotools and
swig?
>
> No. That was kinda the point of this change: "python" means Python 3.
>
> Python 2 is deprecated and will be retired.
Of course. But there is a legacy pyexec_PYTHON and there is a py3exec_PYTHON.
What this change means is that they are one in the same. I do not think that
is the intention. Because...is there a py2exec_PYTHON? I do not find it
grepping my system. And this would need to have been advanced years ago, not
today.
I don't know if there is py2exec_PYTHON. But autotools is no magic (although it
might appear as such), it just uses the commands available. "python" command
being forbidden in Fedora packages and "python" command meaning Python 3 have
been advocated for years.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FinalizingFedoraSwitchtoPython3
I'm sorry if that made you packaging work more complicated. But I just don't
agree that we should make exceptions here. (Nevertheless I would have no idea
how to do that, since every project ships their own pile of autotools that may
or may not use the "python" command that way or another).
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