[📚] firebase.json processing requires Python2 but requirement is not verified or documented

[ttdatt]

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This package use python 2 script to encode firebase.json configuration and add that base64 string with the key firebase_json_raw to Info.plist. But Apple will no longer bundle Python 2.7 with macOS 12.3

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[andersonaddo]

You could install it though, no? Is this a blocking issue, or do you think its just something we should add to the docs?

[ttdatt]

You could install it though, no? Is this a blocking issue, or do you think its just something we should add to the docs?

Because from MacOS 12.3, Apple remove Python 2. And like I said react-native-firebase is using Python2 script, the package cannot add configs in firebase.json to Info.plist if python2 doesn't exist. This issue drove me crazy, I have to debug to know why the configuration in firebase.json didn't work. I think you should add Python2 installation in Getting Started or somewhere in the doc.

[mikehardy]

Whatever part of the system is requiring python should verify existence of python2
The documents should note it

also could a good time to port to python3 really, we're going to have a breaking change release soon probably since it's almost google i/o time and google does them then, might be a good time

Or even better, whatever is happening in python should be ported to javascript since we know we have node available

[mikehardy]

I forward ported to python 3 in #6234 and released as v14.9.2