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

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jan 25, 2019, 14:34 UTC
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"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> writes:
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> I'm glad we're using Python 3 here, but I wonder if the name "python"
> will lead people to think it will work with Python 2 as well. There are
> people using up-to-date Git on systems like CentOS 6 and 7, where Python
> 3 is not generally available.
>
> Could we call this "python3" instead, or provide some other way to
> communicate this to the user?

Sounds like a good idea. Also would this be _the_ sole http server implementation Python3 users would choose, or is it just a possible one? What I am trying to get at is that we might need to be even more specific than just "python 3", but may need to convey that this is for "http.server using python 3". I dunno.

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  1. git-instaweb: Add Python builtin http.server supportArti Zirk, Jan 24, 2019
  2. Junio C HamanoJan 24, 2019
  3. brian m. carlsonJan 25, 2019
  4. Junio C HamanoJan 25, 2019
  5. Arti ZirkJan 25, 2019
  6. brian m. carlsonJan 25, 2019
  7. Junio C HamanoJan 28, 2019
  8. git-instaweb: Add Python builtin http.server supportArti Zirk, Jan 28, 2019
  9. brian m. carlsonJan 28, 2019
  10. Arti ZirkJan 28, 2019
  11. Junio C HamanoJan 28, 2019

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