From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-ed1-x532.google.com (mail-ed1-x532.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4864:20::532]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id ECC8A386F401 for ; Fri, 4 Dec 2020 21:04:29 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 sourceware.org ECC8A386F401 Received: by mail-ed1-x532.google.com with SMTP id r5so7214580eda.12 for ; Fri, 04 Dec 2020 13:04:29 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language :content-transfer-encoding; bh=+Y9lW3mEu8+UT3QJQCQgo0uqYrFCrd7ls6DBpv3o02E=; b=o0iQk2YvmtRaWJfyTiWkC0VhkD8OUPrNkMSYyDXYUEjX5r3rwVHoIoCRPFp+m8gyMw qM7CTEul7VV60jZmtXFMoxQHpyoVbVspHNJN27kNhBeXvNcp/mNdcbYFTYfuw22f1N3b PCZCX2Y0mfXYparISM5WwajNwlDFbGwfgF143BTPY4ap/tNirqtZrPTvkSmvhU5J1kck jY/HVww5kkZjAfd3r3N2B1dkh1d9kjwRXL0tMmI7bl0F1TIEQ263SGqNUADgEjOnatpl eanV2XeEQHWzFdeuZVNm1IV64zWIUVdtiBS/Q2oItweMBI3daxjH8/ryQVieHTy3WuGA /ltQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM532LfEhRc27vMceF77pImO+kc8FxJDQB6OONt1xNovgfgn7/DqKY tOODrQA6J6f4ab4Bi2M7c6XuniTsSiU= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJwAYoPwQaaVgQ/I1wOU8AOT6yJZUboXUufOgITzmhaPenEN5uUZuObYVeEEB4a3uUftCnNmzA== X-Received: by 2002:a05:6402:513:: with SMTP id m19mr9552930edv.244.1607115868803; Fri, 04 Dec 2020 13:04:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?IPv6:2003:cc:9f29:e652:59b8:b249:d2e6:603c? (p200300cc9f29e65259b8b249d2e6603c.dip0.t-ipconnect.de. [2003:cc:9f29:e652:59b8:b249:d2e6:603c]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id u9sm656715edd.54.2020.12.04.13.04.28 for (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 04 Dec 2020 13:04:28 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: Moving from python2 to python3 To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com References: From: Marco Atzeri Message-ID: Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2020 22:04:28 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Language: it Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU, DKIM_VALID_EF, FREEMAIL_FROM, KAM_NUMSUBJECT, NICE_REPLY_A, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE, SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS, TXREP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on server2.sourceware.org X-BeenThere: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Cygwin package maintainer discussion list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2020 21:04:31 -0000 On 28.11.2020 19:11, Ken Brown via Cygwin-apps wrote: > This is a followup to a thread with subject "[PATCH] doc: Various fixes > to makedocbook for python3.8" that began on the newlib list and then > moved to > >   https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-apps/2020-August/040442.html, > > where it evolved into a discussion of moving from python2 to python3.  A > recent post on the cygwin list reminded me that we never finished that > discussion.  We left it with the question of what to do about scripts > with a shebang that names python but might not work with python3. > > With python2 reaching EOL in a month, it seems that we ought to finish > that discussion and make the move. > > Ken working slowing on it I plan to use alternatives for both python and python3, so that by default they will both point to latest python 3.x installed, but you could use alternatives to reverse to any version probably I will release a test version of all python-2.18 python-3.6 python-3.7 python-3.8 before going in full Regards Marco