[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v9 00/11] adding support for python 3 only

[Bruce Richardson]

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