From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 18:29:21 GMT
Subject: Re: yz/p4-py3, was Re: What's cooking in git.git (Feb 2020, #03; Wed, 12)
Message-ID: <xmqq7dzsjc72.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20200310173835.GC3122@szeder.dev>

SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com> writes:

> Here is the SoB and the wordsmithed commit message.
> ...
> Subject: [PATCH] ci: use python3 in linux-gcc and osx-gcc and python2 elsewhere
>
> Python2 reached end of life, and we have been preparing our Python
> scripts to work with Python3.  'git p4', the main in-tree user of
> Python, has just received a number of compatibility updates.  Our
> other notable Python script 'contrib/svn-fe/svnrdump_sim.py' is only
> used in 't9020-remote-svn.sh', and is apparently already compatible
> with both Python2 and 3.
>
> Our CI jobs currently only use Python2.  We want to make sure that
> these Python scripts do indeed work with Python3, and we also want to
> make sure that these scripts keep working with Python2 as well, for
> the sake of some older LTS/Enterprise setups.
>
> Therefore, pick two jobs and use Python3 there, while leaving other
> jobs to still stick to Python2 for now.
>
> Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Nicely written.  Thanks.