From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: James Denholm <nod.helm@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Standardize python shebangs
Date: Wed, 07 May 2014 22:03:48 +1000
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On 7 May 2014 21:11:53 GMT+10:00, Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:
>Johan Herland wrote:
>> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 12:03 PM, Felipe Contreras
>> <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > It's better if all our scripts use the same '/usr/bin/env python'.
>> 
>> Only if they are source compatible with both Python2 and Python3. See
>> PEP394 <URL: http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/ >. Otherwise
>> (for python2-only scripts) '/usr/bin/env python2' is the way to go.
>
>It doesn't matter. People and aistributions have to change them anyway.

Yeah, but they shouldn't have to. The build process is
already non-"sane", let's please not make it more so?

Moving all instances of "env python" to be "env python2",
though, that I think is a reasonable solution (if this is even
felt to be a problem).

Regards,
James Denholm.