[webkit-dev] Moving to Python 3

Maciej Stachowiak mjs at apple.com
Sat Jul 13 19:26:24 PDT 2019



> On 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?

Can you clarify why this is needed?


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