[Kimchi-devel] [PATCH] Change python #! line to be more portable

Aline Manera alinefm at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Fri Feb 27 15:55:40 UTC 2015


On 12/02/2015 10:30, Alan Jenkins wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
>      This is a patch to change the #! line used in Kimchi from the ambiguous
>      /usr/bin/python to a more specific and more portable /usr/bin/env python2.

 From my understanding, using python2 will limit Kimchi to run using 
python2.
I suggest to use "/usr/bin/env python"

>      This enables users of distributions that have switched to the default python version
>      to python3 to run Kimchi without having to go and manually change the line and at the
>      same time allows people who have python installed to non default locations to also use
>      Kimchi by setting the python2 environment variable.
>
> Thanks,
>
>      Alan Jenkins (demon012)
>
> Alan Jenkins (1):
>    Change from using /usr/bin/python to /usr/bin/env python2 to improve
>        portability.
>
>   contrib/check_i18n.py      | 2 +-
>   src/kimchi/vnc.py          | 2 +-
>   src/kimchid.in             | 2 +-
>   ui/pages/help/gen-index.py | 2 +-
>   4 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>




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