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

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Tue, 08 October 2019 21:48 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Rfc-markdown] End of support for xml2rfc on Python 2.x is coming soon
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On Oct 8, 2019, at 23:23, Russ Housley <housley@vigilsec.com> wrote:
> 
> (2) The default output formatters will change to v3.  The v2 formatters
>    will still be available by using a --legacy switch.

Please do this in a way that will not randomly break scripts and other programs that need to run xml2rfc.  (A calling script/program has no idea what version of xml2rfc is installed locally.)  [Actually, that is also true of people calling xml2rfc…]

Grüße, Carsten

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