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

[Aline Manera]

On 27/02/2015 15:12, Alan Jenkins wrote:
> Hey Aline,
>
> Kimchi in its current state doesn't work with Python 3 which is why I 
> explicitly stated Python 2.
>
> For Kimchi to work with Python 3 we would need to get Python 3 
> versions of all the libraries that Kimchi uses and I looked in to this 
> and there are one or two that are in use that are not yet compatible 
> with Python 3.
>
> So for the moment I would recommend explicitly stating python2 until 
> we are able to get Kimchi working with Python 3.
>

Agree.
Thanks for checking the python 3 dependencies.

> Thanks,
>
> Alan Jenkins
>
> On 27 February 2015 at 15:55, Aline Manera <alinefm at linux.vnet.ibm.com 
> <mailto:alinefm at linux.vnet.ibm.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     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 <http://kimchid.in>            | 2 +-
>           ui/pages/help/gen-index.py | 2 +-
>           4 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
>
>

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