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
