On 24.08.2020 12:02, Corinna Vinschen via Newlib wrote:
On Aug 23 16:49, Brian Inglis wrote:
On 2020-08-23 13:41, Jon Turney wrote:
On 23/08/2020 16:23, Ken Brown wrote:
On 8/22/2020 2:45 PM, Jon Turney wrote:
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newlib/doc/makedocbook.py | 8 +++++---
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/newlib/doc/makedocbook.py b/newlib/doc/makedocbook.py
index 92d0f279d..3fab26f1a 100755
--- a/newlib/doc/makedocbook.py
+++ b/newlib/doc/makedocbook.py
[...]
Would it make sense to also change the shebang line so that makedocbook.py
uses python3? Currently the build of Cygwin on Fedora uses python3, but the
build of Cygwin on Cygwin uses python2. This is of no great importance, but a
recent IRC discussion shows that it can be confusing.
Yeah, I guess that would make some sense, given that python2 is now EOL.
Otoh, making it gratuitously not work with python2 seems a bit harsh.
On the gripping hand, reading PEP 0394, I see it doesn't actually require that
'python' exist at all, so I guess changing the shebang as you suggest is the
right thing to do.
Is it not perhaps time to switch python from EOL python2 to python3, as there
are only 183 python2, 125 python27 to 199 python3, 129 python37 packages.
This discussion actually belongs on cygwin-apps, not on newlib ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Thanks,
Corinna
follow up from newlib
python2 will be dead end of 2020.
https://python3statement.org/
most of python2 and python3 packages are obsolete placeholders,
currently python3 points to python3.6 or python3.8, but I am seriously
considering to use alternatives to cover also python37 as already
done for sphinx and to prepare for the next python3.9.
python38 has already 85 packages and I am working on another dozen,
if you need some specific package, let me know.
Following the
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/
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Distributors may choose to set the behavior of the python command as
follows:
- python2,
- python3,
- not provide python command,
- allow python to be configurable by an end user
or a system administrator.
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we are currently setting python as python2=python2.7
Question before I update the three python3.x
- should I leave python as it is, or change to one of the
other settings ?
Any preference ? For the last option I will use alternatives
Regards
Marco
