Re: [Plplot-devel] New test run on Debian woody

[Maurice L. <mj...@ga...>]

(I just returned from vacation)

Alan W. Irwin writes:
 > Some problems did show up for my new woody environment:
 > 
 > (1) The python xw??.py scripts didn't work out of the box because Debian
 > woody calls the command python2 to distinguish it from the python-1.5
 > command which is still called python.  I tried alias so that executing
 > python interactively actually did execute python2, but /bin/env python
 > ignores the alias, and gets the old version.  (Numeric is not installed for
 > that old version so it makes a mess.) The only way out I could see was to
 > locally (not in cvs) edit all the xw??.py scripts to change the reference in
 > the first line from python to python2.  I don't see any easy way around this
 > name change. Unless somebody has a suggestion for an easy fix, I think we
 > should write this off as a temporary Debian woody peculiarity which will
 > eventually get fixed, and not make any changes to plplot.  This is
 > something, however, that Rafael will have to deal with as the woody packager
 > of plplot.

I always use softlinks for this kind of thing.  Link `which python2` to
~/bin/python or even /usr/local/bin/python and make sure they come in your
path before the old python and you're set.

-- 
Maurice LeBrun    mj...@ga...