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Re: [Rfc-markdown] [xml2rfc-dev] [xml2rfc] End of support for xml2rfc on Python 2.x is coming soon

Henrik Levkowetz <henrik@levkowetz.com> Wed, 09 October 2019 14:22 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Rfc-markdown] [xml2rfc-dev] [xml2rfc] End of support for xml2rfc on Python 2.x is coming soon
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Hi Martin,

On 2019-10-09 08:52, Martin J. Dürst wrote:
> On 2019/10/09 09:00, Job Snijders wrote:
> 
>> Between the name of the tool (note the 2 in "xlm2rfc"), the industry's
>> transition from python 2 to python 3, and IETF's transition from the
>> v2 to the v3 RFC XML format, it is no surprise to me end users easily
>> become confused. A simple strong message that python2 can't be used
>> might be helpful, even if it appears somewhat unforgiving.
> 
> What about changing xml2rfc's name to xml3rfc? That way, xml3rfc, python 
> 3, v3 of RFC XML, and pip3 would all align :-).

True, but it would also break things for every person and script going to
the python package index to fetch the tool (https://pypi.org/project/xml2rfc/)
... ,:-)


Best regards,

	Henrik

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