[webkit-dev] Moving to Python 3

[Ryosuke Niwa]

On Sat, Jul 13, 2019 at 4:14 PM Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro at igalia.com>
wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 13, 2019 at 6:02 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs at apple.com>
> wrote:
> > This is exactly what virtualenvs can do. And this is how we should do
> > it IMO, even for systems that natively have some version of Python 3.
>
> I guess that's fine for everything not required by the CMake build,
> e.g. build-webkit and webkitpy. That's probably 99% of our python code.
>
> Scripts required by the CMake build should use system python3 though,
> not the virtualenv. I guess that's 1% or less of our python. OK?


That seems okay given macOS / iOS ports don’t use CMake right now.

Virtually all ports that use CMake as the build system would have python3
in the base installation or already require installations of a bunch of
software (e.g. Windows port), right?

- R. Niwa
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- R. Niwa
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