From: Andrew Bartlett Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2019 05:43:35 +0000 (+1200) Subject: WHATSNEW: add news the sad passing of python2 support X-Git-Tag: samba-4.11.0rc1~109 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=eaebd8759b945e76b7b6d37867d811d3a541650c;p=thirdparty%2Fsamba.git WHATSNEW: add news the sad passing of python2 support Signed-off-by: Andrew Bartlett Reviewed-by: Douglas Bagnall Autobuild-User(master): Andrew Bartlett Autobuild-Date(master): Thu Jul 4 11:25:07 UTC 2019 on sn-devel-184 --- diff --git a/WHATSNEW.txt b/WHATSNEW.txt index d39ef498f89..cf65bd04ebb 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW.txt +++ b/WHATSNEW.txt @@ -189,6 +189,25 @@ The subdommain role has been removed from the join command. This option did not work and has no tests. +Python2 support +--------------- + +Samba 4.11 will not have any runtime support for Python 2. + +If you are building Samba using the '--disable-python' option +(i.e. you're excluding all the run-time Python support), then this +will continue to work on a system that supports either python2 or +python3. + +To build Samba with python2 you *must* set the 'PYTHON' environment +variable for both the 'configure' and 'make' steps, i.e. + 'PYTHON=python2 ./configure' + 'PYTHON=python2 make' +This will override the python3 default. + +Except for this specific build-time use of python2, Samba now requires +Python 3.4 as a minimum. + smb.conf changes ================