From: Reza Housseini <reza.housseini@gmail.com>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Merging the purge-python2-packages branch
Date: Tue, 31 May 2022 09:39:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f57d47ad-dcff-b9bf-5069-d52cea060ab5@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o7zfartq.fsf@gmail.com>
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On 5/30/22 18:49, zimoun wrote:
>
> Well, me, personally, I continue to do most of my research using
> Python 2 because I cannot afford to port everything to Python
> 3. And since I do only number crunching, meaning nothing with
> security implications, I am not particularly worried.
>
> [...]
>
> Once Python 2 lives in a largely isolated package sub-universe,
> I don't see much harm keeping it in Guix for now. If security
> issues become apparent, we might have to do something more
> drastic.
I think time-machine is the tool to use here, and as Maxime suggested,
if you really need to keep maintaining a python2 package than guix-past
is the perfect place to do it (porting to python3 makes probably still
more sense than maintaining an outdated python package).
>
> It appears to me surprising: we do not provide a schedule for the
> removals, then bang purge.
>
I don't see the problem, python 2 was sunsetting in 2020(!) [1] after a
prolongation from 2015, so it should not come as a surprise.
Cheers,
Reza
[1] https://www.python.org/doc/sunset-python-2/
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-31 7:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-05-30 13:25 Merging the purge-python2-packages branch Maxim Cournoyer
2022-05-30 15:18 ` zimoun
2022-05-30 15:32 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-05-30 16:49 ` zimoun
2022-05-31 7:39 ` Reza Housseini [this message]
2022-05-31 19:07 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-05-31 20:54 ` zimoun
2022-06-01 16:21 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-06-01 19:51 ` zimoun
2022-06-01 20:30 ` Maxime Devos
2022-06-02 7:25 ` zimoun
2022-06-02 9:36 ` Maxime Devos
2022-06-02 14:04 ` Ludovic Courtès
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