[bug#71672] [PATCH] python: Prefer python3 over python

2025-02-25 Thread Collin Funk
Hi Karl, Karl Berry writes: > I'm hoping to put out the first pretest tomorrow and 1.18 not long > after. So clearly this Python stuff needs to wait for another release. Thanks for mentioning this again. That plan sounds fine. Python packages seem to have their own packaging stuff that works we

[bug#71672] [PATCH] python: Prefer python3 over python

2025-02-25 Thread Karl Berry
What does your schedule look like for the next Automake release? I'm hoping to put out the first pretest tomorrow and 1.18 not long after. So clearly this Python stuff needs to wait for another release. Thanks for the quick reply. -k

[bug#71672] [PATCH] python: Prefer python3 over python

2025-02-25 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Mon, Feb 24, 2025, at 11:48 AM, Karl Berry wrote: > Returning to this issue of preferring python3, from last year: > > https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=71672 > > Add these three macros to Autoconf proper: ..._PYTHON_... > > Have they been added? They have not. Regrettably,

[bug#71672] [PATCH] python: Prefer python3 over python

2025-02-25 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Mon, Feb 24, 2025, at 11:03 PM, Jacob Bachmeyer wrote: > On 2/24/25 10:48, Karl Berry wrote: >> [...] >> >> To be clear, the above suggested factoring-out won't (intentionally) >> affect the behavior of AM_PATH_PYTHON, right? It will still look for >> "python" first, and still do all the stuff i