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=-10.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, MENTIONS_GIT_HOSTING,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham 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 74D83C2BBCA for ; Thu, 10 Dec 2020 23:04:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44D4123BA7 for ; Thu, 10 Dec 2020 23:04:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726448AbgLJXDS (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Dec 2020 18:03:18 -0500 Received: from ms.lwn.net ([45.79.88.28]:55636 "EHLO ms.lwn.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726018AbgLJXCr (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Dec 2020 18:02:47 -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 453F82DC; Thu, 10 Dec 2020 23:02:06 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 ms.lwn.net 453F82DC DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lwn.net; s=20201203; t=1607641326; bh=f186HpL5h6WRko7zs98ZnxC+LlTnCDnh4fbiQUDuvBc=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=abUrowtlbjPUZM/AfVgb4dgZAyzBovjjnmaCPSfeYQ7PIPsKiIM8UjROpT749b2GB 8zyclJJ/TsdqsJFOkfQCbilWm7I3tEmhtAJz2fDqMdEM0n80JaHiRUUqo3nRoVC4HN 1JGOFI4/osjFrhiBcllFP93zrzSuHzMTms/a3xi3lT5MOpaqNSZHgj11TxyeYwc9pE vvWHN8BLDuzhEFk/xO9dRvGE2FCJJSC3eTm9jWpwwThAQHF9hGS/cVDWVjal2ePrJB DOjjZBnMBs/J9DzvyjsT8djub+zNItLVLLlqqPfe/r6KQKPxjLkVbqUp0ejzui/ELn WwxkDpGJiIZZQ== Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 16:02:05 -0700 From: Jonathan Corbet To: JaeSang Yoo Cc: mchehab+huawei@kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.org, markus.heiser@darmarit.de Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: update requirements to install six module Message-ID: <20201210160205.56bb9060@lwn.net> In-Reply-To: References: <20201208014628.GA1361@JSYoo5B-Base.localdomain> <20201209172903.7990f71b@lwn.net> Organization: LWN.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 10 Dec 2020 12:39:42 +0900 JaeSang Yoo wrote: > While I was surveying the Sphinx library, it requires Python version > 3.5 as a minimum. > You can figure it out in the setup.py of Sphinx library source: > https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/blob/72ad5f2a/setup.py#L13-L15 That, of course, applies to current Sphinx releases. We have people building with older releases, though, which still work with Python 2. > I assume this would be a certain reason to leave Python 2 behind. The > Sphinx check script recommends using virtualenv. How do you think > about leaving Python 2 compatibility issue in this documentation > script range? I'm sorry, I don't quite understand your question. Thanks, jon