From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 259D4C3F2C6 for ; Tue, 3 Mar 2020 20:01:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06B812073B for ; Tue, 3 Mar 2020 20:01:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1731326AbgCCUBy (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Mar 2020 15:01:54 -0500 Received: from ms.lwn.net ([45.79.88.28]:38730 "EHLO ms.lwn.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1730687AbgCCUBy (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Mar 2020 15:01:54 -0500 Received: from lwn.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ms.lwn.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4A107537; Tue, 3 Mar 2020 20:01:53 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2020 13:01:52 -0700 From: Jonathan Corbet To: "Bird, Tim" Cc: "tbird20d@gmail.com" , "mchehab@kernel.org" , "linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH] scripts/sphinx-pre-install: add '-p python3' to virtualenv Message-ID: <20200303130152.461c3494@lwn.net> In-Reply-To: References: <1582594481-23221-1-git-send-email-tim.bird@sony.com> <20200302130911.05a7e465@lwn.net> Organization: LWN.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 3 Mar 2020 17:07:48 +0000 "Bird, Tim" wrote: > The less fragile approach would have been to just > always add the '-p python3' option to the virtualenv setup hint, > but Mauro seemed to want something more fine-tuned. At some point I think we'll want to say that Python 2 just isn't supported anymore. After all, the language itself isn't supported anymore. Perhaps it's time to add a warning somewhere. Thanks, jon