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Python 2 is officially unsupported after 2020, which is before the expected end-of-life
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date of the next round of long-term-stable distributions like Debian 10 and Ubuntu 18.04,
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so those distributions are encouraging all software that can migrate to Python 3 to do so.
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The down side of this is that it would make it harder to use the `rst` plugin on
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very old OS releases, or on OSs where Python 3 is available but doesn't have a `python3`
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symbolic link (if such OSs exist - [PEP 394](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/)
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says they shouldn't), or in shared hosting environments where Python 2 is installed but
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Python 3 isn't. (Mitigation: switching it to `python` or `python2` is a 1-line change.)
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For today's upload to Debian, I switched the `#!` line in the [[plugins/rst]] plugin
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to `#!/usr/bin/python3`. In upstream ikiwiki it would probably be more appropriate
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to use `#!/usr/bin/env python3`, and it would certainly be more appropriate to do it
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by changing the source rather than by using `sed` after installation. I didn't apply that
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change upstream immediately to give other maintainers a chance to comment. Thoughts?
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--[[smcv]]
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> I can attest as a pkgsrc developer, where we try to build and package
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> software on all sorts of platforms (some old and wacky), that as long
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> as the relevant Pythons build on those platforms (and we tend to make
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> sure they do), I don't foresee any negative impact of your suggested
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> change to ikiwiki. Can't attest for other situations, but am generally
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> biased toward biting future bullets as early as possible.
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> --[[schmonz]]
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>> Nobody objected, so it's now python3 for the next release. [[done]] --[[smcv]]
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