During my recent work I needed to use path for generated interpreter in
several places and found the need to repeat
{buildout:bin-directory}/{python-interpreter:interpreter} both tiring
and error-prone, because the knowledge where executable is placed
is implicitly used and relied upon.
On the other hand:
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pygolang already provides ${gpython:exe} as reference to the place where gpython is installed (see e1d269b4)
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pygolang already uses :exe for interpreter generated to accompany pyprog (see 0ee52376 and e328aa49)
So python-interpreter not providing :exe is an oversight and the logical fix is to start providing python-interpreter:exe as well.
-> Do it and convert */software.cfg throughout the tree, where python-interpreter is found, to use it.
/cc @jerome, @Tyagov, @alain.takoudjou, @xavier_thompson, @levin.zimmermann