Messages in this thread | | | From | Masahiro Yamada <> | Date | Tue, 2 Feb 2021 05:58:51 +0900 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kbuild: remove PYTHON variable |
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On Tue, Feb 2, 2021 at 1:38 AM Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> wrote: > > Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> writes: > > > Python retired in 2020, and some distributions do not provide the > > 'python' command any more. > > > > As in commit 51839e29cb59 ("scripts: switch explicitly to Python 3"), > > we need to use more specific 'python3' to invoke scripts even if they > > are written in a way compatible with both Python 2 and 3. > > > > This commit removes the variable 'PYTHON', and switches the existing > > users to 'PYTHON3'. > > > > BTW, PEP 394 (https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/) is a helpful > > material. > > > > Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> > > So this will have the effect of making the docs build impossible for > folks who only have Python 2.
Is this a problem? Python 2 is EOL.
Everybody who wants to use Python must install Python 3.
Rather, people are screaming that the 'python' command does not exist.
> As I said before, this is a step that we > knew was coming, we just hadn't decided on the exact timing - I guess > this decides for us :) > > That said, I'll copy linux-doc to see if anybody screams. I assume this > is a 5.12 change?
No, I am planning to do this for 5.11 (a pull request this week if there is no objection).
> Thanks, > > jon >
-- Best Regards Masahiro Yamada
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