Re: [PATCH] kbuild: remove PYTHON variable

Masahiro Yamada [off-list ref] writes:

On Tue, Feb 2, 2021 at 1:38 AM Jonathan Corbet [off-list ref] wrote:

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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.

I honestly don't know, but people do keep things around for a
surprisingly long time.

quoted

 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).

I'm not going to truly object and try to block this, but I worry that
it's soon and without warning.  It's not a change I would merge for
-rc7.  IMO this should be done in 5.12 with an appropriate note added to
Documentation/process/changes.rst as well.

Thanks,

jon