build: recommend Python 3.8 to build on Windows

PR-URL: #34182 Reviewed-By: Christian Clauss <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Tobias Nießen <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: James M Snell <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Jiawen Geng <[email protected]>
nodejs · Jul 16, 2020 · de250c1 · de250c1
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diff --git a/.github/workflows/build-tarball.yml b/.github/workflows/build-tarball.yml
@@ -72,10 +72,10 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           git config --global core.autocrlf true
       - uses: actions/checkout@v2
-      - name: Set up Python 2.7
-        uses: actions/setup-python@v1
+      - name: Set up Python 3.8
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v2
         with:
-          python-version: 2.7
+          python-version: 3.8
       - name: Environment Information
         run: npx envinfo
       - name: Download tarball

diff --git a/BUILDING.md b/BUILDING.md
@@ -526,7 +526,7 @@ to run it again before invoking `make -j4`.
 
 ##### Option 1: Manual install
 
-* [Python 2.7](https://www.python.org/downloads/)
+* [Python 3.8](https://www.python.org/downloads/)
 * The "Desktop development with C++" workload from
   [Visual Studio 2017 or 2019](https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/) or
   the "Visual C++ build tools" workload from the