[Slackbuilds-users] Python (Again!)

[Jeremy Hansen]

On Tue, Apr 20, 2021, 2:59 PM Barry J. Grundy <bgrundy at gmail.com> wrote:

> I know this has come up before and perhaps been answered and I've also
> read through the related threads on LQ, but I still have not seen a
> definitive answer (if there is one):
>
> Since python2 is EOL and -current/15 ships with python3, is it good
> practice now to build python packages with python3 by default?  If so,
> then what's the best way to handle the multiple versions?  This
> discussion was had on the list back in Feb of '19, but I don't see
> anything definitive.
>
> For example, I maintain dpkt.  The version in the -current (ponce's)
> repo works, but I have an update ready to go when submissions open
> again.  Right now dpkt builds for python2. Here's my question:
>
> My "ready to go" update switches to python3 by default and uses a
> "PYTHON2=yes" option to build python2 modules if the user wants. Would
> it be better to create python3-dpkt and leave the dpkt script at
> python2?  I see it both ways in the 14.2 repo.
>
> Another probably better example is distorm, which is a requirement for
> volatility (which is python2 only).  volatility3 is a separate re-write
> for python3 with different prerequisites (and I already have a
> slackbuild to submit for that when things open again).  So for
> volatility it makes sense to leave distorm as is.  I can submit a
> separate python3-distorm script when I submit volatility3.
>
> Perhaps with the submissions freeze it would be a good time to either
> separate the scripts or at least decide on a "best practice".  My
> apologies if I'm simply kicking a dead horse here.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Barry
>

In my opinion, I think SBo for 15.0 should default to python3 for any
packages and python2 should be something that can be optional (for those
packages that support both).

If there's a need to have separate python2 and python3 packages, the
python3 package should not need an identifier in front of it, where the
python2 package should ($PRGNAM for python3 and python2-$PRGNAM for
python2).

Jeremy
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