From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2025 22:40:37 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/8] meson: stop discovering native version of Python
Message-ID: <xmqqy0sx9ee2.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <1664d442-7985-41b7-9391-78f78ece7601@gentoo.org>

Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@gentoo.org> writes:

> "python" may be a symlink to python 2.x, or 3.x, or not exist at all. I
> am not aware of *any* scenario where a distributor has re-packaged
> Python, "python" exists on PATH and is a real Python 3.x interpreter,
> but "python3" doesn't exist.
>
> I am not aware of this ever being an existing real world scenario in the
> past, either -- it is not a "we no longer live in the bad old days"
> scenario.

Good.  Thanks.