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| author | Christian Clauss <cclauss@me.com> | 2020-12-30 17:09:52 +0300 |
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| committer | Richard Lau <rlau@redhat.com> | 2021-04-16 22:47:02 +0300 |
| commit | 4268fae04acc16b34fb302d63b01a85725ef2043 (patch) | |
| tree | 5f8eb2c274dca965ebf4129dea81f835c3c564a9 /BUILDING.md | |
| parent | 6d04cc684952ccbaa4a0cad36752a0f2bbaaa048 (diff) | |
build: remove support for Python 2
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/36691
Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/25789
Reviewed-By: Matteo Collina <matteo.collina@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <targos@protonmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Jiawen Geng <technicalcute@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Zeyu Yang <himself65@outlook.com>
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Ujjwal Sharma <ryzokuken@disroot.org>
Reviewed-By: Сковорода Никита Андреевич <chalkerx@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Richard Lau <rlau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-By: Beth Griggs <bgriggs@redhat.com>
Reviewed-By: Michael Dawson <midawson@redhat.com>
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| -rw-r--r-- | BUILDING.md | 33 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/BUILDING.md b/BUILDING.md index 2de444e9bd2..22d803c76a8 100644 --- a/BUILDING.md +++ b/BUILDING.md @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ file a new issue. * [OpenSSL asm support](#openssl-asm-support) * [Previous versions of this document](#previous-versions-of-this-document) * [Building Node.js on supported platforms](#building-nodejs-on-supported-platforms) - * [Note about Python 2 and Python 3](#note-about-python-2-and-python-3) + * [Note about Python](#note-about-python) * [Unix and macOS](#unix-and-macos) * [Unix prerequisites](#unix-prerequisites) * [macOS prerequisites](#macos-prerequisites) @@ -225,29 +225,23 @@ Consult previous versions of this document for older versions of Node.js: ## Building Node.js on supported platforms -### Note about Python 2 and Python 3 - -The Node.js project supports both Python 3 and Python 2 for building. -If both are installed Python 3 will be used. If only Python 2 is available -it will be used instead. When possible we recommend that you build and -test with Python 3. +### Note about Python +The Node.js project supports Python >= 3 for building and testing. ### Unix and macOS #### Unix prerequisites * `gcc` and `g++` >= 8.3 or newer, or * GNU Make 3.81 or newer -* Python (see note above) - * Python 2.7 - * Python 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, and 3.8 +* Python 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, and 3.9 (see note above) Installation via Linux package manager can be achieved with: -* Ubuntu, Debian: `sudo apt-get install python g++ make` -* Fedora: `sudo dnf install python gcc-c++ make` -* CentOS and RHEL: `sudo yum install python gcc-c++ make` -* OpenSUSE: `sudo zypper install python gcc-c++ make` +* Ubuntu, Debian: `sudo apt-get install python3 g++ make` +* Fedora: `sudo dnf install python3 gcc-c++ make` +* CentOS and RHEL: `sudo yum install python3 gcc-c++ make` +* OpenSUSE: `sudo zypper install python3 gcc-c++ make` * Arch Linux, Manjaro: `sudo pacman -S python gcc make` FreeBSD and OpenBSD users may also need to install `libexecinfo`. @@ -256,10 +250,8 @@ Python 3 users may also need to install `python3-distutils`. #### macOS prerequisites -* Xcode Command Line Tools >= 11 for macOS -* Python (see note above) - * Python 2.7 - * Python 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, and 3.8 +* Xcode Command Line Tools >= 10 for macOS +* Python 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, and 3.9 (see note above) macOS users can install the `Xcode Command Line Tools` by running `xcode-select --install`. Alternatively, if you already have the full Xcode @@ -568,7 +560,7 @@ to run it again before invoking `make -j4`. ##### Option 1: Manual install -* [Python 3.8](https://www.python.org/downloads/) +* [Python 3.9](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/python-39/9p7qfqmjrfp7) * The "Desktop development with C++" workload from [Visual Studio 2019](https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/) or the "Visual C++ build tools" workload from the @@ -606,8 +598,7 @@ packages: * [Git for Windows](https://chocolatey.org/packages/git) with the `git` and Unix tools added to the `PATH` -* [Python 3.x](https://chocolatey.org/packages/python) and - [legacy Python](https://chocolatey.org/packages/python2) +* [Python 3.x](https://chocolatey.org/packages/python) * [Visual Studio 2019 Build Tools](https://chocolatey.org/packages/visualstudio2019buildtools) with [Visual C++ workload](https://chocolatey.org/packages/visualstudio2019-workload-vctools) * [NetWide Assembler](https://chocolatey.org/packages/nasm) |