On Sun, Nov 24, 2024 at 3:05 AM Karl Berry <[email protected]> wrote:
> +case "$PYTHON" in
> + *python*) ;;
> + *)
> + echo "$me: Invalid python executable ${PYTHON}";
> + echo "$me: Python support disabled";
> + exit 0;;
> +esac
>
> Thanks. But I'm not sure about requiring the executable name to include
> "python". Apart from technically being against GNU standards, I can
> imagine people making a link named anything and then using that. For
> whatever reason.
>
> Maybe it would suffice to run $PYTHON -V and see if the result matches
> grep -i python?
>
> I don't have Python 2.0 (the oldest we claim to support, though I have
> my doubts), but it works with Python 2.7.
>
> $ python2.7 -V
> Python 2.7.18
>
> Wdyt? --thanks, karl.
>
That sounds reasonable.
