[webkit-dev] Moving to Python 3

[Konstantin Tokarev]

16.07.2019, 14:33, "Guillaume Emont" <guijemont at igalia.com>:
> 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.

But we have autoinstaller which handles this situation.

>
> I think this situation should be easy to avoid with a virtualenv though.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Guillaume
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Regards,
Konstantin