On Wed, 2019-10-16 at 12:05 +0100, Sean Mooney wrote:
but it needs more folks actually working to make it happen, and the ugly hack has been in place for so long I have doubts we'll see a major overhaul like that any time soon. well the main thing that motivated me to even comment on this thread was the fact we currently have a hack that with lib_from_git where if you enable python 3 i will install the lib under python 2 and python3. the problem is the interperter line at the top of the entry point will be replaced with the python2 version due to the order of installs. so if you use libs_form _git with nova or with a lib that provides a setup tools console script entrypoint you can get into a situation where your python 3 only build can end up trying to run "python2" scripts. this has lead to some interesting errors to debug in the past. anyway i was looking forward to having a python3 only disto to not have to deal with that in the future with it looks like
You should probably look at https://review.opendev.org/#/c/687585/ so Stephen