[webkit-dev] Python

Ryosuke Niwa rniwa at webkit.org
Sat Aug 12 14:40:19 PDT 2017


On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 8:06 AM, Michael Catanzaro
<mcatanzaro at igalia.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 10:56 AM, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
> <clopez at igalia.com> wrote:
>>
>> That's a good thing.
>>
>> I believe all Linux distros we support have this, right?
>> And all the scripts actually assume python2.7 (AFAIK).
>>
>> Would it work for everyone having as shebang :
>>
>> #!/usr/bin/env python2.7
>>
>> ?
>
>
> So this is by far the easiest solution of those that have been proposed. I
> think we should try this as a stopgap until macOS is fixed to provide a
> python2 binary.

What's wrong with using that as the permanent solution until we make
it Python3 compatible?

I don't think it's wise to assume /usr/bin/python2 will be added on
Mac anytime soon.

- R. Niwa


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