Em Tue, 29 Jul 2025 13:45:26 +0300 Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxx> escreveu: > On Mon, 28 Jul 2025, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Considering the above, for me it seems that the bus already departed: > > there are several cases where Python is required during build time. > > FWIW, if it was up to me, I'd make Python 3+ a non-optional build > dependency. I'd also forget about any Python 2 backward compat stuff. I don't think we should do much effort to support Python 2, but it comes almost for free: only shebang needs to be different, and, if the comments inside the doc contains non-utf8 chars, an encoding line. The current tools during Kernel build currently supports it (again, except for shebang). Anyway, from my side I'm happy either way. > I would find it very useful for code/header generation during build > time, instead of having to resort to C hostprogs. Similar to what MSM is > doing. > > That said, I know there's going to be people vehemently opposed. Fine from my side ;-) There are some precedents here, so I guess it should be up to each subsystem to decide using it or not. > > So, adding a "depends on TOOL_PYTHON" doesn't seem to be trivial. > > Agreed. Forget about that idea. > > > BR, > Jani. > >
