Re: gnulib-tool shell vs. Python

[Bruno Haible]

Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen wrote:
> > Yes. The shell-based implementation does not receive all bug-fixes and
> > improvements any more, and is deprecated.
> 
> Thanks.  Shouldn't the Python-based one be the default, then?  An
> out-of-the-box checkout of gnulib seems to run the shell-based one.

Either you have the environment variable GNULIB_TOOL_IMPL set. Unset it.
It is not documented, and its purpose is fulfilled.

Or you should have gotten a warning:

  gnulib-tool: warning: python3 not found or too old, using the slow 
shell-based implementation

Bruno