[PATCH] doc: Various fixes to makedocbook for python3.8

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Aug 23 16:49, Brian Inglis wrote:
> On 2020-08-23 13:41, Jon Turney wrote:
> > On 23/08/2020 16:23, Ken Brown wrote:
> >> On 8/22/2020 2:45 PM, Jon Turney wrote:
> >>> ---
> >>>   newlib/doc/makedocbook.py | 8 +++++---
> >>>   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >>>
> >>> diff --git a/newlib/doc/makedocbook.py b/newlib/doc/makedocbook.py
> >>> index 92d0f279d..3fab26f1a 100755
> >>> --- a/newlib/doc/makedocbook.py
> >>> +++ b/newlib/doc/makedocbook.py
> > [...]
> >> Would it make sense to also change the shebang line so that makedocbook.py
> >> uses python3?  Currently the build of Cygwin on Fedora uses python3, but the
> >> build of Cygwin on Cygwin uses python2.  This is of no great importance, but a
> >> recent IRC discussion shows that it can be confusing.
> > 
> > Yeah, I guess that would make some sense, given that python2 is now EOL.
> > 
> > Otoh, making it gratuitously not work with python2 seems a bit harsh.
> > 
> > On the gripping hand, reading PEP 0394, I see it doesn't actually require that
> > 'python' exist at all, so I guess changing the shebang as you suggest is the
> > right thing to do.
> 
> Is it not perhaps time to switch python from EOL python2 to python3, as there
> are only 183 python2, 125 python27 to 199 python3, 129 python37 packages.

This discussion actually belongs on cygwin-apps, not on newlib ¯\_(ツ)_/¯


Thanks,
Corinna