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Date:   Tue, 3 Mar 2020 13:01:52 -0700
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] scripts/sphinx-pre-install: add '-p python3' to
 virtualenv
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On Tue, 3 Mar 2020 17:07:48 +0000
"Bird, Tim" <Tim.Bird@sony.com> wrote:

> The less fragile approach would have been to just
> always add the '-p python3' option to the virtualenv setup hint,
> but Mauro seemed to want something more fine-tuned.

At some point I think we'll want to say that Python 2 just isn't supported
anymore.  After all, the language itself isn't supported anymore.  Perhaps
it's time to add a warning somewhere.

Thanks,

jon