[webkit-dev] Moving to Python 3

[Guillaume Emont]

Quoting Fujii Hironori (2019-07-16 08:04:09)
> 
> On Sun, Jul 14, 2019 at 7:44 AM Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa at webkit.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>     I don’t think anyone is arguing that we’d eventually need to move to
>     Python3. I’m arguing that it’s not okay to require random WebKit
>     contributor to know some obscure python insanity to install Python 3, or
>     have a script that installs Python 3 and breaks all other python scripts in
>     the system.
> 
> 
> 
>  Just out of curiosity. As far as I know, installing Python 3 breaks nothing.
> What and why are they got broken?

I suspect Ryosuke is talking about a case where python 3 has already
been installed on the OS (but is not part of the original OS), and we
install python 3 also, and the scripts that were using the first python
3 installed end up using WebKit's python 3 instead, which could lack a
python module required by these scripts, hence breaking them.

I think this situation should be easy to avoid with a virtualenv though.

Best regards,

Guillaume