On Thu, Jun 20, 2024, at 5:50 AM, Collin Funk wrote: > Shouldn't AM_PATH_PYTHON check for the python3 command before python?
Yes it should. > The full recommendation of how these should be setup is in PEP 394 Note that PEP 394 is dangerously incorrect on one point: a system where /usr/bin/python and/or the bare 'python' command invoke Python 3 is a misconfigured system, because there's -- yes, even now -- a huge volume of Python 2-only scripts out there in the wild that will malfunction if run under a Python 3 interpreter. In the worst case "malfunction" means "cause silent data corruption." This is mostly not Automake's problem, but -- assuming people who use AM_PATH_PYTHON with current versions of Automake *want* the Python 3 interpreter, for the most part -- it might be an argument for *not* probing unsuffixed 'python', only 'python3' and 'python3.*'. zw
