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[PATCH] py-compile: Allow user to disable python

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From: Frederic Berat <fberat <at> redhat.com>
To: Karl Berry <karl <at> freefriends.org>
Cc: 74434 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#74434] [PATCH] py-compile: Allow user to disable python
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2024 08:14:41 +0100

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On Sun, Nov 24, 2024 at 3:05 AM Karl Berry <karl <at> freefriends.org> wrote:

>     +case "$PYTHON" in
>     +  *python*) ;;
>     +  *)
>     +  echo "$me: Invalid python executable ${PYTHON}";
>     +  echo "$me: Python support disabled";
>     +  exit 0;;
>     +esac
>
> Thanks. But I'm not sure about requiring the executable name to include
> "python". Apart from technically being against GNU standards, I can
> imagine people making a link named anything and then using that. For
> whatever reason.
>
> Maybe it would suffice to run $PYTHON -V and see if the result matches
> grep -i python?
>
> I don't have Python 2.0 (the oldest we claim to support, though I have
> my doubts), but it works with Python 2.7.
>
> $ python2.7 -V
> Python 2.7.18
>
> Wdyt? --thanks, karl.
>

That sounds reasonable.

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