Re: [PATCH] Standardize python shebangs

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: May 8, 2014, 11:48 UTC
Message-ID: <vpqlhucmqxt.fsf@anie.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <d15f06ad-0418-48ed-a9dc-6ca1e955e75c@email.android.com>

James Denholm <nod.helm@gmail.com> writes:

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> On 8 May 2014 06:57:13 GMT+10:00, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:
>>Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Matthieu Moy wrote:
>>>> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:
>>>> > If you want to use python2, then use '/usr/bin/env python2'.
>>>> 
>>>> Err, yes, this is what the code does before your patch.
>>>
>>> Not for all the instances.
>>
>>Well, I guess not all scripts require python2, hence not all scripts
>>declare that they depend on python2.
>
> Does it make sense for git to have a strict subset of python scripts as
> version agnostic, though? Given that some scripts depend on python2
> already, and hence we know that the user has python2,

No, we don't. People do not have to use _all_ Python scripts. The discussion started about git-multimail.py, which I use on a server which doesn't have python3, while my desktop (where I use other Git commands) has Python3.

It is very important that git-multimail keeps running with Python2 (ideally, it could be portable Python 2 or 3, but it's not so easy to do), but that would be strange to force even non-git-multimail-users to use Python2 for that.

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