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<a href="https://gitlab.rtems.org/amar">Amar Takhar</a> created an issue: <a href="https://gitlab.rtems.org/rtems/rtos/rtems/-/issues/5154">#5154</a>
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Assignee: Amar Takhar
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<p dir="auto" style="color: #28272d; margin: 0 0 16px;" align="initial">Bumping the version of waf has made us require python3.  So what's the point of any of our scripts pointing to 'python'.  Are we ready to accept a hybrid of complaints between someone running 2.7 and <em style="margin-top: 0;">3.11</em>??  That is a nightmare as long as the script runs under Python3 without warnings we should bump because guaranteed they are just doing <code style='font-size: 90%; color: #18171d; word-wrap: break-word; background-color: #ececef; border-radius: .25rem; font-weight: inherit; font-family: "GitLab Mono","JetBrains Mono","Menlo","DejaVu Sans Mono","Liberation Mono","Consolas","Ubuntu Mono","Courier New","andale mono","lucida console",monospace; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: keep-all; padding: 2px 4px;'>ln -s python3 python</code> instead of running a hybrid environment.</p>
<p dir="auto" style="color: #28272d; margin: 0 0 16px;" align="initial">Yes it's close to the release my argument is: it will be less work for us fixing bugs if everyone is running Python 3 than sending any kind of message that we're supporting 2.7.  There is a 10 year history of Python 2 files running under Python 3 it's fine and rarely an issue as long as you fix any errors if <code style='font-size: 90%; color: #18171d; word-wrap: break-word; background-color: #ececef; border-radius: .25rem; margin-top: 0; font-weight: inherit; font-family: "GitLab Mono","JetBrains Mono","Menlo","DejaVu Sans Mono","Liberation Mono","Consolas","Ubuntu Mono","Courier New","andale mono","lucida console",monospace; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: keep-all; padding: 2px 4px;'>--help</code> runs it will almost always work.</p>
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<pre class="code highlight js-syntax-highlight language-plaintext" v-pre="true" style='display: block; font-size: 14px; color: #28272d; line-height: 1.6em; overflow-x: auto; border-radius: .25rem; position: relative; font-family: "GitLab Mono","JetBrains Mono","Menlo","DejaVu Sans Mono","Liberation Mono","Consolas","Ubuntu Mono","Courier New","andale mono","lucida console",monospace; word-break: break-all; word-wrap: break-word; background-color: #fbfafd; margin: 0 0 16px; padding: 12px; border: 1px solid #dcdcde;'><code style='font-size: inherit; color: inherit; word-wrap: normal; word-break: keep-all; background-color: inherit; border-radius: .25rem; white-space: pre; margin-top: 0; font-family: "GitLab Mono","JetBrains Mono","Menlo","DejaVu Sans Mono","Liberation Mono","Consolas","Ubuntu Mono","Courier New","andale mono","lucida console",monospace; vertical-align: bottom; overflow-wrap: normal; padding: unset;'><span id="LC1" class="line" lang="plaintext" style="margin-top: 0;">rtems_waf/gccdeps.py #!/usr/bin/env python</span>
<span id="LC2" class="line" lang="plaintext">rtems-docs/book/posix-compliance/posix_rst.py #! /usr/bin/env python</span>
<span id="LC3" class="line" lang="plaintext">rtems-docs/common/rtemsref.py #!/usr/bin/env python</span>
<span id="LC4" class="line" lang="plaintext">rtems-docs/posix-compliance/posix_rst.py #! /usr/bin/env python</span>
<span id="LC5" class="line" lang="plaintext">rtems-libbsd/firmware-gen.py #!/usr/bin/env python</span>
<span id="LC6" class="line" lang="plaintext">rtems-libbsd/freebsd-to-rtems.py #! /usr/bin/env python</span>
<span id="LC7" class="line" lang="plaintext">rtems-libbsd/mDNSResponder/mDNSPosix/parselog.py #!/usr/bin/python</span>
<span id="LC8" class="line" lang="plaintext">rtems-libbsd/rtems-kern-symbols #! /usr/bin/env python</span>
<span id="LC9" class="line" lang="plaintext">rtems-libbsd/testsuite/epoch01/epoch01.py #!/usr/bin/env python</span>
<span id="LC10" class="line" lang="plaintext">rtems-libbsd/userspace-header-gen.py #!/usr/bin/env python</span>
<span id="LC11" class="line" lang="plaintext">rtems-lwip/lwip-to-rtems.py #! /usr/bin/env python</span>
<span id="LC12" class="line" lang="plaintext">rtems-lwip/wscript #!/usr/bin/env python</span>
<span id="LC13" class="line" lang="plaintext">rtems-net-services/rtems_waf/gccdeps.py #!/usr/bin/env python</span>
<span id="LC14" class="line" lang="plaintext">rtems-net-services/wscript #!/usr/bin/env python</span>
<span id="LC15" class="line" lang="plaintext">rtems-release/release-notes/rtems-release-notes #! /usr/bin/env python</span>
<span id="LC16" class="line" lang="plaintext">rtems-release/rtems-mailer #! /usr/bin/env python</span>
<span id="LC17" class="line" lang="plaintext">rtems-source-builder/source-builder/pkg-config #! /usr/bin/env python</span>
<span id="LC18" class="line" lang="plaintext">rtems-source-builder/source-builder/sb-check #! /usr/bin/env python</span>
<span id="LC19" class="line" lang="plaintext">rtems-source-builder/source-builder/sb-defaults #! /usr/bin/env python</span>
<span id="LC20" class="line" lang="plaintext">rtems-source-builder/source-builder/sb-get-sources #! /usr/bin/env python</span>
<span id="LC21" class="line" lang="plaintext">rtems-source-builder/source-builder/sb-reports #! /usr/bin/env python</span>
<span id="LC22" class="line" lang="plaintext">rtems-source-builder/source-builder/sb-rtems-config #! /usr/bin/env python</span>
<span id="LC23" class="line" lang="plaintext">rtems-source-builder/source-builder/sb-rtems-pkg #! /usr/bin/env python</span>
<span id="LC24" class="line" lang="plaintext">rtems-source-builder/source-builder/sb-set-builder #! /usr/bin/env python</span>
<span id="LC25" class="line" lang="plaintext">rtems-source-builder/source-builder/sb-track #! /usr/bin/env python</span>
<span id="LC26" class="line" lang="plaintext">rtems-source-builder/source-builder/sb/pkgconfig.py #! /usr/bin/env python</span>
<span id="LC27" class="line" lang="plaintext">rtems-source-builder/source-builder/sb/rtems-kernel-config-check #! /usr/bin/env python</span>
<span id="LC28" class="line" lang="plaintext">rtems-tools/doc/asciidoc/a2x.py #!/usr/bin/env python</span>
<span id="LC29" class="line" lang="plaintext">rtems-tools/doc/asciidoc/asciidoc.py #!/usr/bin/env python</span>
<span id="LC30" class="line" lang="plaintext">rtems-tools/doc/asciidoc/asciidocapi.py #!/usr/bin/env python</span>
<span id="LC31" class="line" lang="plaintext">rtems-tools/doc/asciidoc/filters/code/code-filter.py #!/usr/bin/env python</span>
<span id="LC32" class="line" lang="plaintext">rtems-tools/doc/asciidoc/filters/graphviz/graphviz2png.py #!/usr/bin/env python</span>
<span id="LC33" class="line" lang="plaintext">rtems-tools/doc/asciidoc/filters/latex/latex2png.py #!/usr/bin/env python</span>
<span id="LC34" class="line" lang="plaintext">rtems-tools/doc/asciidoc/filters/music/music2png.py #!/usr/bin/env python</span>
<span id="LC35" class="line" lang="plaintext">rtems-tools/doc/asciidoc/tests/asciidocapi.py #!/usr/bin/env python</span>
<span id="LC36" class="line" lang="plaintext">rtems-tools/doc/asciidoc/tests/testasciidoc.py #!/usr/bin/env python</span>
<span id="LC37" class="line" lang="plaintext">rtems-tools/linkers/waf-tools/doxygen.py #! /usr/bin/env python</span>
<span id="LC38" class="line" lang="plaintext">rtems-tools/misc/rtems-boot-image #! /usr/bin/env python</span>
<span id="LC39" class="line" lang="plaintext">rtems-tools/misc/rtems-gen-acpica-patches #! /usr/bin/env python</span>
<span id="LC40" class="line" lang="plaintext">rtems-tools/misc/rtems-tftp-proxy #! /usr/bin/env python</span>
<span id="LC41" class="line" lang="plaintext">rtems-tools/misc/tools/getmac/__main__.py #!/usr/bin/env python</span>
<span id="LC42" class="line" lang="plaintext">rtems-tools/misc/tools/mkimage.py #!/usr/bin/env python</span>
<span id="LC43" class="line" lang="plaintext">rtems-tools/tester/rt/pygdb/mi_parser.py #!/usr/bin/python</span>
<span id="LC44" class="line" lang="plaintext">rtems-tools/tester/rtems-bsp-builder #! /usr/bin/env python</span>
<span id="LC45" class="line" lang="plaintext">rtems-tools/tester/rtems-run #! /usr/bin/env python</span>
<span id="LC46" class="line" lang="plaintext">rtems-tools/tester/rtems-test #! /usr/bin/env python</span>
<span id="LC47" class="line" lang="plaintext">rtems-tools/tester/rtems-tftp-server #! /usr/bin/env python</span>
<span id="LC48" class="line" lang="plaintext">rtems/wscript #!/usr/bin/env python</span></code></pre>
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<span id="LC2" class="line" lang="plaintext">rtems-docs/common/icons/gen_svg.py #!/usr/bin/env python3</span>
<span id="LC3" class="line" lang="plaintext">rtems-libbsd/freebsd/sbin/ping/tests/injection.py #! /usr/bin/env python3</span>
<span id="LC4" class="line" lang="plaintext">rtems/gccdeps.py #!/usr/bin/env python3</span>
<span id="LC5" class="line" lang="plaintext">rtems/rtems-bsps #! /usr/bin/env python3</span>
<span id="LC6" class="line" lang="plaintext">rtems/testsuites/build/bin/fake-rtems5-ar #!/usr/bin/env python3</span>
<span id="LC7" class="line" lang="plaintext">rtems/testsuites/build/bin/fake-rtems5-gcc #!/usr/bin/env python3</span>
<span id="LC8" class="line" lang="plaintext">rtems/testsuites/build/bin/fake-rtems5-ld #!/usr/bin/env python3</span>
<span id="LC9" class="line" lang="plaintext">rtems/testsuites/build/test.py #!/usr/bin/env python3</span>
<span id="LC10" class="line" lang="plaintext">rtems/testsuites/rtems-test-check.py #! /usr/bin/env python3</span></code></pre>
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