[OE-core] [PATCH 01/22] oe-buildenv-internal: Update to python3

[Richard Purdie]

On Wed, 2016-06-01 at 08:35 -0700, Christopher Larson wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 5:35 AM, Richard Purdie <
> richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > Check that 'python' is a python v2 since that is what we assume
> > everywhere
> > and upstream python devs recommend. We can need both python2 and
> > python3
> > available since we don't control the software we might download and
> > run.
> > 
> > Also check that python 3 is >= 3.4.0, our minimum version for
> > bitbake.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org>
> > 
> I'm curious, why don't we just have a bit of logic to figure out what
> the names are of the binaries, create a subdir and prepend it to the
> path, and add symlinks or wrapper scripts there to the real binaries
> on the system?

We could do this I guess, I'm kind of hoping we don't have to as it
just adds more complexity. 

Tempted to leave the patch as it stands for initial merging and then we
can see how many people have issues...

Cheers,

Richard