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authorStephen Finucane <stephen@that.guru>2020-04-08 22:41:30 +0100
committerStephen Finucane <stephen@that.guru>2020-04-08 23:34:37 +0100
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docs: Remove references to Python 2.7
Signed-off-by: Stephen Finucane <stephen@that.guru>
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-rw-r--r--docs/deployment/installation.rst3
-rw-r--r--docs/development/installation.rst26
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/docs/deployment/installation.rst b/docs/deployment/installation.rst
index 80b53e3..cef522c 100644
--- a/docs/deployment/installation.rst
+++ b/docs/deployment/installation.rst
@@ -157,8 +157,7 @@ We will install this under ``/opt``, though this is only a suggestion:
__ https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/intro/tutorial01/#creating-a-project
Next we require Python. If not already installed, then you should do so now.
-Patchwork supports both Python 2.7 and Python 3.3+, though we're going to use
-the latter to ease future upgrades. Python 3 is installed by default, but you
+Patchwork supports Python 3.6+. Python 3 is installed by default, but you
should validate this now:
.. code-block:: shell
diff --git a/docs/development/installation.rst b/docs/development/installation.rst
index 33ebd96..244aabe 100644
--- a/docs/development/installation.rst
+++ b/docs/development/installation.rst
@@ -165,10 +165,10 @@ These are detailed below.
Python Requirements
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-To develop Python-based software you first need Python. Patchwork supports both
-Python 2.7 and Python 3.5+. One of these will be installed by default on many
-installations, though they can also be installed manually using the ``python``
-or ``python3`` packages.
+To develop Python-based software you first need Python. Patchwork supports
+Python 3.6+. Python 3 will be installed by default on many installations,
+though a suitable version can usually be installed manually using the
+``python3`` package.
It's a good idea to use `virtual environments`__ to develop Python software.
Virtual environments are "instances" of your system Python without any of the
@@ -177,12 +177,12 @@ deploy Patchwork against a "well known" set of dependencies, but they can also
be used to test Patchwork against several versions of Django.
If you do not have ``virtualenv`` installed then you should install it now. This
-can be installed using the ``python-virtualenv`` or ``python3-virtualenv``
-packages. Alternatively you can install these using ``pip``.
+can be installed using the ``python3-virtualenv`` package. Alternatively you
+can install these using ``pip``.
It is also helpful to install ``tox`` which is used for running tests in
-Patchwork. This can be installed using the ``python-tox`` or ``python3-tox``
-packages, or via ``pip``.
+Patchwork. This can be installed using the ``python3-tox`` package, or via
+``pip``.
__ https://virtualenv.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
@@ -217,15 +217,15 @@ Example Installation
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
An example for installing all these packages and the MySQL RDBMS on Ubuntu
-15.04 is given below:
+20.04 is given below:
.. code-block:: shell
- $ sudo apt-get install python python-pip python-dev python-virtualenv \
- python-tox mysql-server libmysqlclient-dev
+ $ sudo apt-get install python3 python3-pip python3-dev python3-virtualenv \
+ python3-tox mysql-server libmysqlclient-dev
-If you have an existing MariaDB/MySQL installation and have installed ``pip``
-already/are using Python 3.5+ then you can install all packages using ``pip``:
+If you have an existing MariaDB/MySQL installation then you can install all
+packages using ``pip``:
.. code-block:: shell