[oi-dev] packaging scripts that use python3

[Tim Mooney]

All-

I'm trying to find what the best practices are for packaging scripts
that use python 3.

In a couple of cases I've run into recently, configure or meson have
found /usr/bin/python3 and used that in the sh-bang in the script, only
to have the 'publish' target fail because ips.mk wants a specific version.

What's the right thing to do here?  Just pick a specific python version
(like python3.9) and use that in the sh-bang?  If so, which version?

Are there settings that should be present in the Makefile that would help
"abstract" what the preferred python version is?  I know there's
$(PYTHON), but that still points to 2.7.  I'm just wondering if there's
something like PYTHON3_PREFERRED or similar, so that different components
don't have different versions of python 3 hardcoded.

Thanks,

Tim
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