Remaining Waf Conversion Tickets for Community and GSoC Students

[Chris Johns]

On 11/2/21 2:36 am, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> On 10/02/2021 16:19, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 8:40 AM Sebastian Huber
>> <sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de
>> <mailto:sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de>> wrote:
>>
>>     On 10/02/2021 15:27, Joel Sherrill wrote:
>>
>>     > On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 11:20 PM Sebastian Huber
>>     > <sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de
>>     <mailto:sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de>
>>     > <mailto:sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de
>>     <mailto:sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de>>> wrote:
>>     >
>>     >
>>     >     On 08/02/2021 10:40, Chris Johns wrote:
>>     >     >> It is written in Python 3.6.
>>     >     > We still need to support python 2. Maybe having this file
>>     >     support both could be
>>     >     > part of the project.
>>     >     I think this BSP builder is a development tool which can use
>>     >     Python 3.
>>     >     It is useful to maintain RTEMS, but it is not a tool
>>     required for end
>>     >     users of RTEMS to develop applications. Independent of this, the
>>     >     Python
>>     >     2 end of life was a year ago.
>>     >
>>     >
>>     > It is still the default Python on CentOS7 which is an even
>>     longer LTS
>>     > release
>>     > based on the recent CentOS changes.  I would consider it a primary
>>     > test tool
>>     > which should work on all hosts.
>>
>>     According to this web site Python 3 is available since CentOS 7.7
>>     though
>>     the standard repository:
>>
>>     |yum update -y ||yum install -y python3 We should make a list of
>>     host computer systems
>>     we would like to support and then check if Python 3 is available. |||
>>
>>
>> This is different from what I have been doing. I have been using the
>> software collection for python3. The software collections do not change the
>> base environment and you have to explicitly switch to them. I do this when
>> working on the documentation.
>>
>> scl enable rh-python36 bash
>>
>> I installed python3. I now have this for tab-completion for python:
>>
>> $ python
>> python            python2.7         python2-config    python3.6        
>> python-config
>> python2           python2.7-config  python3           python3.6m      
>>  python_count
>>
>> Will the RTEMS Python code pick the Python3 automatically?

This is covered here ....

https://docs.rtems.org/branches/master/user/hosts/python.html

I use virtual environments and I suggest you and others do as well. The virtual
environment you select will control which python you use.

I am against shebang changes to a specific version.

Chris