meson: use the new 'python' module instead of the 'python3' one. Closes #1455

The new python module, added with 0.46, works with Python 2 and 3 and
allows to pass a path for the interpreter to use, if the need arises.

Previously the meson build set PYTHON, used in the shebang line of
the scripts installed by glib, to the full path of the interpreter.
The new meson module doesn't expose that atm, but we should set it to
a executable name anyway, and not a full path.

gio/gdbus-2.0/codegen/meson.build

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ gdbus_codegen_files = [
 
 gdbus_codegen_conf = configuration_data()
 gdbus_codegen_conf.set('VERSION', glib_version)
-gdbus_codegen_conf.set('PYTHON', python.path())
+gdbus_codegen_conf.set('PYTHON', python_name)
 gdbus_codegen_conf.set('DATADIR', glib_datadir)
 
 # Install gdbus-codegen executable

gobject/meson.build

@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ python_tools = [
 
 python_tools_conf = configuration_data()
 python_tools_conf.set('VERSION', glib_version)
-python_tools_conf.set('PYTHON', python.path())
+python_tools_conf.set('PYTHON', python_name)
 
 foreach tool: python_tools
   tool_bin = configure_file(

gobject/tests/meson.build

@@ -1,6 +1,3 @@
-py3_mod = import('python3')
-py3 = py3_mod.find_python()
-
 gobject_tests = [
   'qdata',
   'boxed',
@@ -82,8 +79,8 @@ test('signals', exe, env : test_env, suite : ['gobject'])
 
 test(
   'mkenums.py',
-  py3,
+  python,
   args: files('mkenums.py'),
   env: test_env,
   suite: ['gobject'],
-)
+)

meson.build

@@ -1800,7 +1800,9 @@ elif meson.get_cross_property('have_strlcpy', false)
   glib_conf.set('HAVE_STRLCPY', 1)
 endif
 
-python = import('python3').find_python()
+python = import('python').find_installation('python3')
+# used for '#!/usr/bin/env <name>'
+python_name = 'python3'
 
 # Determine which user environment-dependent files that we want to install
 have_bash = find_program('bash', required : false).found() # For completion scripts