From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:29:22 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v2] Python 3, simple, external package support In-Reply-To: <511A5DD5.1030005@yahoo.fr> References: <1360678441-3199-1-git-send-email-kpa_info@yahoo.fr> <20130212152155.0d3c5301@skate> <511A54EE.5010509@yahoo.fr> <20130212155333.1cf75e26@skate> <511A5DD5.1030005@yahoo.fr> Message-ID: <20130212162922.7e940756@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Patrick, On Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:20:53 +0100, Patrick wrote: > Thomas, I am aware that there is others packages that depends on > host-python, mostly x11. But I have not changed the way host-python nor > host-python3 are build and used. I don't understand how the changes I > have made could break this compared as previously ? If I'm not mistaken, > host-python is selected directly by the package (mesa3d for example) > when needed, and this is independent of the selected python package, right ? True. So we might end up with two versions of Python installed in $(HOST_DIR): python2 and python3. Hopefully, it should work. Regarding the patch set, I think I would prefer to rename the current python package to python2, and have the 'python' package be the virtual package that provides either python2 or python3. That's indeed more work, but I find the name "python-generic" not so great. Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com