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Wed, 9 Jul 2025 18:40:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Junio C Hamano To: Eli Schwartz Cc: Patrick Steinhardt , git@vger.kernel.org, Ramsay Jones , irecca.kun@gmail.com, Jeff King , Justin Tobler Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/8] meson: stop discovering native version of Python In-Reply-To: <1664d442-7985-41b7-9391-78f78ece7601@gentoo.org> (Eli Schwartz's message of "Wed, 9 Jul 2025 18:22:46 -0400") References: <20250709-b4-pks-meson-cleanups-v3-0-29ab15b9ab85@pks.im> <20250709-b4-pks-meson-cleanups-v3-1-29ab15b9ab85@pks.im> <1664d442-7985-41b7-9391-78f78ece7601@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2025 15:40:37 -0700 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Eli Schwartz writes: > "python" may be a symlink to python 2.x, or 3.x, or not exist at all. I > am not aware of *any* scenario where a distributor has re-packaged > Python, "python" exists on PATH and is a real Python 3.x interpreter, > but "python3" doesn't exist. > > I am not aware of this ever being an existing real world scenario in the > past, either -- it is not a "we no longer live in the bad old days" > scenario. Good. Thanks.