[Slackbuilds-users] Please update your tqdm SlackBuild

[Duncan Roe]

On Fri, Mar 04, 2022 at 02:55:38PM +0100, SlackBuilds wrote:
> > > Hi Dionysis,
> > >
> > > Many thanks for that: I sent a pull request with the minumum necessary changes.
> > > On a freshly installed 15.0 system, python is python3, so your SB only makes the
> > > 3.9 packages. You might want to change `python` to `python2`, but I leave that
> > > up to you.
> >
> > No, /usr/bin/python points to python2.7: [...]
> > Looks like existing practice on SBo is split between "python setup.py" and python2 setup.py", with the majority being "python setup.py":
> >
> > $ git grep "python setup.py" | wc -l
> > 662
> > $ git grep "python2 setup.py" | wc -l
> > 298
> > $ git grep "python3 setup.py" | wc -l
> > 671
> >
> > > > Erich
>
> Looking at install scripts for slackware's python2 and python3, the symbolic link /usr/bin/python is for python2, whatever package you install first. And even if python2 is uninstalled, you won't have a /usr/bin/python executable.
>
> So python is python2, and python3 is always explicit.
>
> However, more and more slackbuilds are explicit for python2 also, which is a good thing, and should be the rule, at least whenever any given python2 package is updated for another good reason.
>
> 	- Yth.

My bad - tqdm did install 2.7. Must have scrolled off the screen and I didn't
scroll up to look.

Cheers ... Duncan.