bug#13170: automake and pyconfigure: a future integration? (was: Re: [PATCH] AM_PATH_PYTHON: try "python2" et al. first)

2012-12-13 Thread Kerrick Staley
Quite a lengthy response for such a simple inquiry! Really, I'd just like to get gobject-introspection to compile on Arch Linux. The problem is that gobject-introspection's configure.ac has the line AM_PATH_PYTHON([2.5]) but gobject-introspection can't actually work with Python 3 or higher (the

bug#13170: automake and pyconfigure: a future integration?

2012-12-13 Thread Brandon Invergo
> I think that would go more smoothly collaborating with the upstreams > from the beginning; for example, we had some tweaks and bug-fixes > related to python support in Automake (see in particular the commits > v1.12.4-43-ge0e99ed and v1.12.5-14-g1f113f6 in the Automake's git > repository), and yo

bug#13170: automake and pyconfigure: a future integration?

2012-12-13 Thread Brandon Invergo
>> What happens in pyconfigure (more on that in a moment) is that you can >> pass an argument to AC_PROG_PYTHON. So if you want to use Python 2 >> specifically, you first search for it with AC_PROG_PYTHON([python2]). >> In a standard system, this should find the most recent Python 2 >> interpreter.

bug#13170: automake and pyconfigure: a future integration? (was: Re: [PATCH] AM_PATH_PYTHON: try "python2" et al. first)

2012-12-13 Thread Brandon Invergo
>> > Me too, mostly. But I agree that there is an underlying issue (albeit > not major). > >> The "Future Changes to this Recommendation" >> section of PEP 394 anticipates changing the `python' symlink to >> `python3' at some point in the future. This has already happened in Parabola, Arch and ot

bug#13170: automake and pyconfigure: a future integration?

2012-12-13 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hi Brandon. On 12/13/2012 02:20 PM, Brandon Invergo wrote: >>> >> Me too, mostly. But I agree that there is an underlying issue (albeit >> not major). >> >>> The "Future Changes to this Recommendation" >>> section of PEP 394 anticipates changing the `python' symlink to >>> `python3' at some point

bug#13170: automake and pyconfigure: a future integration?

2012-12-13 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 12/13/2012 03:14 PM, Brandon Invergo wrote: >>> What happens in pyconfigure (more on that in a moment) is that you can >>> pass an argument to AC_PROG_PYTHON. So if you want to use Python 2 >>> specifically, you first search for it with AC_PROG_PYTHON([python2]). >>> In a standard system, this s

bug#13170: automake and pyconfigure: a future integration? (was: Re: [PATCH] AM_PATH_PYTHON: try "python2" et al. first)

2012-12-13 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Severity: wishlist [+cc bug-automake, +cc bug-pyconfigure] Reference: On 12/13/2012 11:15 AM, Jack Kelly wrote: > Kerrick Staley writes: >> Usually, when AM_PATH_PYTHON is invoked with an argument of the form >> 2.X, it