Ubuntu
compiz package

  1. Bug #1004592
  2. Comment #13

Comment 13 for bug 1004592

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triplesqaurednine (triplesquarednine) wrote :

@Daniel/Sam

Has Ubuntu switched to Python 3 yet? if so, how did the distro do the migration?

I am curious, because it would be nice if the build-system could check to see if /usr/bin/python2 exists, in which case instead of executing COMMAND python ... it could substitute in COMMAND python2 where it is needed so that compiz builds on distros that are using /usr/bin/python as python3 not python2... anyway, i mention this because recently another file in the sources need to be modified in order to succesfully install.

so we are at a total of 3 files in the sources that need to be modified;

/compiz/compizconfig/ccsm/CMakeLists.txt
/compiz/compizconfig/compizconfig-python/CMakeLists.txt
/compiz/compizconfig/cmake/exec_setup_py_with_destdir.cmake

I thought when Ubuntu migrated to python3, they would have done like most of the distros that first adopted python3 - which is to make /usr/bin/python (python3), while for python2 their using /usr/bin/python2..

anyway, some sort of detection of /usr/bin/python2 would be a good thing.

cheerz