From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: zimoun Subject: Re: Python 2 end-of-life? Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 12:46:43 +0100 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:33283) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iXkvI-0005NL-DT for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2019 06:46:57 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iXkvH-00079P-DL for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2019 06:46:56 -0500 Received: from mail-qk1-x72e.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4864:20::72e]:37710) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iXkvH-00078F-8y for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2019 06:46:55 -0500 Received: by mail-qk1-x72e.google.com with SMTP id e187so2742000qkf.4 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2019 03:46:55 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Guix Devel , Konrad Hinsen Dear, The end-of-life of Python 2 is coming... https://www.python.org/doc/sunset-python-2/ https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0373/ Projects pledge to drop their support of Python 2. https://python3statement.org/ What do you do? Do we deprecate the python2 packages? If yes, what would be the schedule? If no, do we move all the python2 packages to a python2-xyz.scm file? Do we do nothing? Based on what rationale? Thanks in advance for any comments, thoughts, etc. :-) All the best, simon