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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Cc: Arti Zirk <arti.zirk@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, e@80x24.org, peff@peff.net,
	jnareb@gmail.com, flavio@polettix.it, wil@nohakostudios.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] git-instaweb: Add Python builtin http.server support
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2019 06:34:14 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqva2cg61l.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190125020451.GU423984@genre.crustytoothpaste.net> (brian m. carlson's message of "Fri, 25 Jan 2019 02:04:52 +0000")

"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> writes:

> 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.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-01-25 14:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-24 16:13 [PATCH v1] git-instaweb: Add Python builtin http.server support Arti Zirk
2019-01-24 20:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-01-25  2:04 ` brian m. carlson
2019-01-25 14:34   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2019-01-25 15:22     ` Arti Zirk
2019-01-25 23:58       ` brian m. carlson
2019-01-28  0:02         ` Junio C Hamano
2019-01-28 13:24 ` [PATCH v2] " Arti Zirk
2019-01-28 16:52   ` brian m. carlson
2019-01-28 17:48     ` Arti Zirk
2019-01-28 18:27   ` Junio C Hamano

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