From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: <dev-bounces@dpdk.org> Received: from dpdk.org (dpdk.org [92.243.14.124]) by inbox.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08DD3A04BC; Tue, 29 Sep 2020 18:33:56 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [92.243.14.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D933D1BC79; Tue, 29 Sep 2020 18:33:54 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mga17.intel.com (mga17.intel.com [192.55.52.151]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 929F91BC27 for <dev@dpdk.org>; Tue, 29 Sep 2020 18:33:53 +0200 (CEST) IronPort-SDR: fCBIfp6YhoYP+AgydNuFRwXkaWVlpk1TShAUyEHeoKELqmsZOWHvdxO8oBLmZLjqXPinvxVb6x Mke9HOiB+JYg== X-IronPort-AV: E=McAfee;i="6000,8403,9759"; a="142248521" X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.77,319,1596524400"; d="scan'208";a="142248521" X-Amp-Result: SKIPPED(no attachment in message) X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from fmsmga005.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.32]) by fmsmga107.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 29 Sep 2020 09:33:50 -0700 IronPort-SDR: tUGy/hgZfwNZb0kGwe+1zYRWh3E7LylTOE7Uk3C0toA2cORETGaAxxBY3MKYpXDb1ahSrJLd5P 4cSGFlCF2t7w== X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.77,319,1596524400"; d="scan'208";a="514746020" Received: from bricha3-mobl.ger.corp.intel.com ([10.213.220.178]) by fmsmga005-auth.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 29 Sep 2020 09:33:49 -0700 Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 17:33:44 +0100 From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com> To: Robin Jarry <robin.jarry@6wind.com> Cc: Kevin Laatz <kevin.laatz@intel.com>, David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>, dev <dev@dpdk.org>, "Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com> Message-ID: <20200929163344.GD966@bricha3-MOBL.ger.corp.intel.com> References: <20200928104328.409055-1-kevin.laatz@intel.com> <20200929102224.440322-1-kevin.laatz@intel.com> <CAJFAV8zx8B-EcwqxgkxTob1NM7NMoDeq2AHo4+yokm8yFcyVMw@mail.gmail.com> <b24db8ab-8347-4486-60e6-588f06f602bb@intel.com> <20200929154849.GB966@bricha3-MOBL.ger.corp.intel.com> <20200929155453.mr2rgmjroihaqon3@6wind.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20200929155453.mr2rgmjroihaqon3@6wind.com> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v9 00/11] adding support for python 3 only X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions <dev.dpdk.org> List-Unsubscribe: <https://mails.dpdk.org/options/dev>, <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/> List-Post: <mailto:dev@dpdk.org> List-Help: <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <https://mails.dpdk.org/listinfo/dev>, <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=subscribe> Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" <dev-bounces@dpdk.org> On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 05:54:53PM +0200, Robin Jarry wrote: > 2020-09-29, Bruce Richardson: > > I think we should err on the side of caution for the doc one - it can > > always be changed by a later patch anyway. Cleaning up the > > dpdk-telemetry one is probably worth doing though, I agree. > > I'm not sure I agree. Since python 2 support is officially dropped in > 20.11. Why bother with preserving it only for the docs? > Because we are not building the docs directly, sphinx is, and some systems may still have a python2 version of sphinx installed. While I think it's ok to say that to use DPDK you need to have python3 available, I don't like telling users that their entire toolset needs to be updated to python3 too. >From what I can see, Centos/Redhat 7, which we still support, appears to only have a python2 version of sphinx-build. /Bruce