From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
Cc: arstoffel@gmail.com, manphiz@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master 7f0a252f216 1/2: Prefer python3 for python-interpreter
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2024 18:49:43 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <867cau4fzc.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkm=fSDdhuPP4CLr4yBR6qENeJogqa3BpYEYc5PaYQMXbuw@mail.gmail.com> (message from Stefan Kangas on Sun, 29 Sep 2024 08:37:13 -0700)
> From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2024 08:37:13 -0700
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > This is the sensible way to proceed: python is linked to the default
> > Python version (/usr/bin/python3.12 in a recent release), as is python3.
>
> That point may or may not be valid, but it should have been raised
> around 5 years ago with the distro developers that decided not to do
> that.
That's not what I see on a few systems to which I have access.
What's the harm of testing "python" first, anyway? Several systems
use that, and doing so will let our users an extra degree of freedom:
they can change Python version without any adjustments needed in
Emacs. Sounds like a win-win situation to me.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-09-29 15:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-09-27 7:12 master 7f0a252f216 1/2: Prefer python3 for python-interpreter Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-27 7:59 ` Xiyue Deng
2024-09-27 18:43 ` Augusto Stoffel
2024-09-27 22:13 ` Xiyue Deng
2024-09-29 15:37 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-09-29 15:49 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-09-29 16:38 ` Augusto Stoffel
2024-09-29 15:23 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-09-29 15:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-29 15:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-29 16:05 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-09-29 16:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-29 21:41 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-09-30 11:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-05 22:50 ` Rudolf Adamkovič
2024-10-07 8:20 ` Robert Pluim
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