Re: xreadlines/python2 (?) required for gen-make.py

mark benedetto king <bking@inquira.com> writes:

> On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 09:36:02AM -0800, Daniel Rall wrote:
> > cmpilato@collab.net writes:
> >
> > > Daniel Rall <dlr@finemaltcoding.com> writes:
> > >
> > > > gen-make.py runs just fine with python2:
> > > >
> > > > dlr@despot:trunk$ python2 ./gen-make.py build.conf
> > > >
> > > > python2 ships with xreadlines. Is python2 now required to run
> > > > gen-make.py, or just xreadlines?
> > >
> > > Python 2 is indeed required for Subversion developers and testers.
> >
> > I've seen that in the documentation, but since the `python` binary is
> > often not Python 2+, it would make sense to change the #! line in the
> > gen-make.py script to reference python2 or python2.2.
>
> That won't work, because FreeBSD doesn't install python2 as python2.

Yes, it definitely wouldn't work in all configurations. I'm hoping
someone will come up with a better solution. This isn't a blocking
problem for me, but was worth bringing up.

-- 
Daniel Rall <dlr@finemaltcoding.com>
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