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From: "Andrew Fish" <afish@apple.com>
To: devel@edk2.groups.io, crobinso@redhat.com
Cc: gaoliming <gaoliming@byosoft.com.cn>,
	sunny.Wang@arm.com, "Feng, Bob C" <bob.c.feng@intel.com>,
	"Chen, Christine" <yuwei.chen@intel.com>,
	Sami Mujawar <sami.mujawar@arm.com>,
	Samer El-Haj-Mahmoud <Samer.El-Haj-Mahmoud@arm.com>,
	Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] Python2.7 is not working with the EDK2 build system
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2021 10:33:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9A6AA44B-4BF2-4A7E-BA51-8F18C2F8B719@apple.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <58506871-5490-24ef-1638-84e155bb805e@redhat.com>

Should we move to require a min Python version at some point?
> On Oct 5, 2021, at 9:48 AM, Cole <crobinso@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> On 9/6/21 9:18 PM, gaoliming wrote:
>> Bob:
>> 
>>  Yes. Python3 is the formal support. We recommend user to use Python3.
>> But, if user meets the issue in Python2, user can still report the issue
>> in BaseTools. Its priority may be low. For this case, it is the
>> regression issue caused by the recent change. The patch owner is also
>> identified. So, I suggest the patch owner to follow up and enhance his
>> patch.
>> 
> 
> Sorry for the delayed response, I was on paternity leave since August.
> 
> I haven't seen the actual error in this thread. Is there a clear python
> error being thrown? Maybe the fix is simple but I can't
> 
> But as mentioned elsewhere, python2 has been End of Life since Jan 1
> 2020, over 1.5 years ago. It's going to become increasingly difficult to
> keep code working on python2 and latest python3.
> 
> - Cole
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2021-10-05 17:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-03 18:08 Python2.7 is not working with the EDK2 build system Sunny Wang
2021-09-06  1:09 ` 回复: [edk2-devel] " gaoliming
2021-09-06  9:30   ` Bob Feng
2021-09-06 13:15     ` Sunny Wang
2021-09-07  1:18       ` 回复: " gaoliming
2021-10-05 16:48         ` Cole
2021-10-05 17:33           ` Andrew Fish [this message]
2021-10-08  2:24           ` 回复: " gaoliming
2021-10-15  1:30             ` Steven Shi

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