Re: [PATCH v1] git-instaweb: Add Python builtin http.server support

> On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 05:22:45PM +0200, Arti Zirk wrote:
>> This is the built in http server that Python comes with (like Ruby
>> users have builtin webrick server). While it is possible to install
>> something else, I don't think many casual git-instaweb users would do
>> it. 
>> 
>> I haven't looked in depth into it but I'm pretty sure that by simply
>> changing the imports I could make this code also work in python2.
>> 
>> Upstream python2 support ends in ~11 months and would Red Hat/CentOS 7
>> users using new git releases really care about "git instaweb -d python"
>> not working on installations without Python 3?
>
> I'm sensitive to the fact that upstream is dropping support for Python
> 2, and I have no objections to limiting this to Python 3. However,
> whether we like it or not, Red Hat/CentOS 7 is going to be around for
> four years after that.
>
>> In the end I would like to keep the name just "python" to signal that
>> it only needs standard Python installation and nothing else.
>
> Could you update the documentation to put "Python 3" in parentheses or
> otherwise make it clear in the documentation? My goal is to avoid
> confusing users who are on systems that still have Python 2.