Re: gnulib-tool: Use the Python implementation by default

[Paul Eggert]

On 2024-04-27 06:32, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Are there alternative Python implementations, which could be installed under
> the name 'python3'?

On the platforms I currently have terminals open on (Fedora 40, Ubuntu 
23.10) it's called 'python'. You can also use 'python3' but I would 
suggest trying 'python' first if you aren't already doing that. These 
platforms do not have Python 2, which is typical nowadays.

There are other Python implementations - for example, GraalVM supports 
Python 3.8 and the GraalVM folks say they do a lot of compatibility 
checking. If people want (and have the time) to check portability of the 
new Python code in Gnulib, that might be a good alternative to try. 
Among other things, they claim a big performance improvement over 
CPython - I don't know how well that would work for us though.