[Bug 796092] meson: use new python module

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https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796092

--- Comment #2 from Håvard Graff (hgr) <havard.graff at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Nicolas Dufresne (ndufresne) from comment #1)
> Review of attachment 371989 [details] [review]:
> 
> ::: gi/overrides/meson.build
> @@ +14,3 @@
>  # Workaround to get uninstalled working.
>  foreach source: pysources
> +    run_command(python, '-c', 'import os; os.symlink("@0@/@1@",
> "@2@/@3@")'.format(
> 
> Are you convince this won't default to python 2 instead of 3 ? Would be a
> bit backward, since we are dropping python 2 in cerbero and eventually other
> build tools.

If you look in meson_options.txt you will see python3 is the default. It would
be a good idea to support Python 2 until at least it is end-of-life:
https://pythonclock.org/. A lot of frameworks (like twisted) still only works
with Python 2.

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