Re: [oe-core][PATCH] python3: add ${bindir}/python symlink

[Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>]

On 22/11/2022 19:32:17+0100, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Nov 2022 at 19:14, Richard Purdie
> <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > Rightly or wrongly, this patch will cause large amounts of pain for
> > some portion of our userbase and I'm not sure we have enough
> > justification to do that. That pain wouldn't likely be realised for
> > some time either :/.
> 
> I have to point out that meta-python2 hasn't even received a
> compatibility update for langsdale:
> https://git.openembedded.org/meta-python2
> 
> While this might be 'too soon' to conclude that python2 is truly dead,
> maybe a year (or two, or three) from now it won't be. Fedora has
> already made the switch, Debian will follow, and honestly, I just
> can't muster any sympathy for python2 users anymore. You can't push
> back paying off technical debt forever and expect others to
> accommodate you.
> 
> Let me propose this: a PACKAGECONFIG for the python recipe that adds
> and installs the symlink in a dedicated package. We can keep it off
> for now, but somewhere down the line we could revisit that against
> established practice and what PEPs say then.
> 

I actually like the idea of having a python-is-python3 package so that
affected recipes could simply add it to their dependencies. That would
make it explicit that python is not python2.

> Alex

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