[Buildroot] [PATCH] package/scons: explicitly specify host Python 3

[Thomas Petazzoni]

On Tue, 14 Jul 2020 15:31:09 +0200
Titouan Christophe <titouan.christophe at railnova.eu> wrote:

> > HOST_SCONS_NEEDS_HOST_PYTHON = $(if ($(BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON),python,python3)  
> 
> AFAIK, we usually do the opposite:
> $(if $(BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON3),python3,python)

Yes, but the idea is to reverse this progressively, and switch more and
more to "Python 3.x" is the default.

> In my very own opinion, we should now only use host-python3 everywhere, 
> unless host-python(2) is strictly required. Pragmatically speaking, in 
> the rare cases where host-python(2) is still necessary, having both 
> Pythons on the host would not be that much of an overhead (both in terms 
> of building time and disk space); and would reduce the clutter in all 
> the places where we do the fancy dance you describe above.

I'm fine with moving towards host-python3 only where possible.

> On the target side, I'm also looking forward to invert the target 
> py2/py3 logic, ie changing
> 
> $(if $(BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON3),python3,python))
> 
> into
> 
> $(if $(BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON),python,python3))
> 
> especially in package/pkg-python.mk.
> 
> Again, the goal is to have Python3 as default, while still allowing old 
> Python2-only programs to run where needed. I'll try to find some time 
> this week to go through the Buildroot tree and update the Python3 
> migration page (https://www.elinux.org/Buildroot:Python2Packages), as 
> there has been some change since the FOSDEM dev days. This shall help us 
> understand where Python2 is still required.

That would be great indeed!

Thomas
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