[MacPorts] #63356: meson PortGroup: find an easier method to set the desired python rather than patch-and-reinplace python in every port

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#63356: meson PortGroup: find an easier method to set the desired python rather
than patch-and-reinplace python in every port
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  Reporter:  Lord-Kamina  |      Owner:  (none)
      Type:  defect       |     Status:  new
  Priority:  Normal       |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports        |    Version:
Resolution:               |   Keywords:  meson python python_select path
      Port:  meson        |
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Comment (by Lord-Kamina):

 Replying to [comment:10 kencu]:
 > And besides, if you're going to go to the trouble of patching and
 reinplacing anyway, you might as well do it right.
 >
 > What would be nice is some centralized spot where the python is
 specified. But even then there could then be hundreds of ports that
 conceivably need to be revbumped to pick up a python change when the
 blessed python changes, if any of that is baked into scripts etc (we are
 trying hard to purge all that baking in for exactly this reason).


 It wouldn't be "what the toolchain randomly finds in the moment" though.
 It would always be whatever python meson itself is using; so you've got
 your point of centralization. Then you just need to edit meson when python
 changes.

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