[Piglit] [PATCH] Revert "python: change she-bang to python2"

Ian Romanick idr at freedesktop.org
Tue Jun 24 10:24:44 PDT 2014


On 06/24/2014 10:08 AM, Ilia Mirkin wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Ian Romanick <idr at freedesktop.org> wrote:
>> On 06/24/2014 08:27 AM, Ilia Mirkin wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 11:20 AM, Kenneth Graunke <kenneth at whitecape.org> wrote:
>>>> For the record, I dislike that Arch has installed Python 3 as /usr/bin/python.
>>>> It's incompatible and has caused no end of headaches for upstreams.  But,
>>>> there's not a lot we can do about that.
>>>
>>> Isn't there? Refuse to go along with the idiocy until Arch fixes it or
>>> people stop using it...
>>
>> What you're suggesting is called "pissing in the wind."  Not generally
>> producitve.  At some point you just have to get work done.
> 
> So that strategy works for Arch but not for us?

Ask the question: Who is hurt by the stubborness of an Arch boycott?

It certainly won't hurt Arch, and it has approximately epsilon
probability of making them change.

It certainly will hurt some piglit developers that encounter Arch systems.

We're only hurting our own community... hence my original analogy.


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