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Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 15:22:02 +0100
From: "Leif Lindholm" <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>
To: Rebecca Cran <rebecca@bsdio.com>
Cc: devel@edk2.groups.io, lersek@redhat.com, bob.c.feng@intel.com,
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Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] [PATCH v2] edksetup.sh: Simplify SetupPython3 and SetupPython functions.
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On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 08:17:44AM -0600, Rebecca Cran wrote:
> > Or we could assume people have a functional python3 on the PATH and
> > would like to use that?
> 
> If python3 exists we might want to just use that. But on macOS (and
> FreeBSD) it doesn't exist, and we have to choose one of the python3.*
> binaries to use.

OK, so the use-case is real. That is good to know.

Do (either) of these systems have a "python" binary, and if so, what
is that?

I'll throw together an alternative patch, based on top of your 1-4/6,
and send out for discussion.

Best Regards,

Leif