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Re: [gpsd-dev] Minimum Python Version
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Eric S. Raymond |
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Re: [gpsd-dev] Minimum Python Version |
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Wed, 27 Jan 2016 20:12:15 -0500 |
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Greg Troxel <address@hidden>:
> The right fix is for gpsd's build process to find a suitable python
> implemention via searching for fully-qualified names, and then to
> substitute that path into the files at build (or perhaps install, while
> also workign for make check) time.
No, that's way too complicated and fragile. There's a simpler, standard
solution in one of the PEPs: rely on python2 and python3 aliases existing,
and if they don't consider that a port problem to be shimmed with an alias
in your path somewhere.
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