Am 02.10.18 um 13:20 schrieb Joel Sherrill: > > > On Mon, Oct 1, 2018, 11:52 PM Chris Johns <chr...@rtems.org > <mailto:chr...@rtems.org>> wrote: > > On 02/10/2018 09:08, Joel Sherrill wrote: > > > > It could be a system administration issue I don't know how to > resolve yet but > > during recent Kick Starts, both Ubuntu abd msys2 have ended up > with no program > > named python. There can be a python2.x or python3.x. On Ubuntu, I > hacked and > > symlinked python2.x to python. This didn't work on msys2. > > > > Given I have seen this issue on two different platforms, I wanted > to report this > > and see if anyone had any insight. > > > > On Ubuntu I have: > > $ file /usr/bin/python > /usr/bin/python: symbolic link to python2.7 > $ apt-file search /usr/bin/python | grep "/usr/bin/python$" > python-minimal: /usr/bin/python > > This looks like a packaging issue on Ubuntu. > > > Grr..I added a second link by hand. > > > On MSYS2 I do not know. > > > I tried a fresh MSYS2 yesterday. > > We need to watch out for this and see if there is a trend. > > > > Chris > >
Hello Joel and Chris, the official end of live date for Python 2 is 01.01.2020 (see https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0373/#maintenance-releases). So I would say that it's not unlikely that some distributions start to experiment with dropping the symlink "python" to find incompatible scripts. Best regards Christian -- -------------------------------------------- embedded brains GmbH Herr Christian Mauderer Dornierstr. 4 D-82178 Puchheim Germany email: christian.maude...@embedded-brains.de Phone: +49-89-18 94 741 - 18 Fax: +49-89-18 94 741 - 08 PGP: Public key available on request. Diese Nachricht ist keine geschäftliche Mitteilung im Sinne des EHUG. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@rtems.org http://lists.rtems.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
