[OE-core] [PATCH] python: make python2 and python3 alternatives to python

[Alexander Kanavin]

On 04/13/2017 11:33 AM, Dmitry Rozhkov wrote:
> If only python3 is installed on an image nothing provides
> /usr/bin/python even though many scripts compatible with
> both python2 and python3 just state `#!/usr/bin/env python`
> in their shebang line.
>
> Make python and python3 recipes provide alternatives for
> /usr/bin/python and /usr/bin/python-config. By default
> python2 has higher priority over python3.

This runs against upstream recommendation and common distro practice. 
And it will break scripts that have not been ported to Python 3. Please 
fix the scripts instead to refer to python 3 whenever possible.

Alex