From: Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net>
To: Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com>,
Lars-Dominik Braun <lars@6xq.net>,
Tanguy LE CARROUR <tanguy@bioneland.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Removal of Python 2?
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2021 14:41:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m18s32ul5c.fsf@fastmail.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b0a66f5f-16b2-14be-9fcc-0aad5f078568@crazy-compilers.com>
Hi Hartmut,
> Python 2 is dead, dead, dead like the parrot and end-of-prolonged life
> as of more than 1 1/2 years. Anyhow, there might still be quite some
> software not ported to Python 3 after 10 years. So I'm afraid we need to
> keep Python 2.
At this time, more than 2500 packages still depend on Python 2, and
that's not just Python libraries. The list includes packages such as
TeXlive, LLVM, Rust, OpenJDK, Calibre, OCaml, qemu, etc.
For many of these packages, Python 2 is used only as part of the build
procedure. Which is run in a highly protective sandbox. So I don't think
we need to worry much about having Python 2 in Guix. To discourage
people from installing it by accident, we could make it a hidden
package.
Cheers,
Konrad.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-22 12:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-08 14:27 Questions regarding Python packaging Tanguy Le Carrour
2020-11-08 17:05 ` Leo Famulari
2020-11-10 8:35 ` Tanguy Le Carrour
2020-11-08 20:43 ` Michael Rohleder
2020-11-10 8:30 ` Tanguy Le Carrour
2020-11-09 16:54 ` Hartmut Goebel
2020-11-10 8:47 ` Tanguy Le Carrour
2020-11-10 8:53 ` Hartmut Goebel
2021-01-05 10:25 ` Lars-Dominik Braun
2021-01-06 15:32 ` Tanguy LE CARROUR
2021-01-22 8:38 ` Tanguy LE CARROUR
2021-01-23 12:34 ` Lars-Dominik Braun
2021-01-24 13:30 ` Tanguy LE CARROUR
2021-01-24 20:54 ` Ryan Prior
2021-01-25 11:47 ` Lars-Dominik Braun
2021-01-25 16:57 ` Ryan Prior
2021-02-05 10:40 ` Hartmut Goebel
2021-05-17 6:24 ` Lars-Dominik Braun
2021-06-06 16:44 ` Tanguy LE CARROUR
2021-06-06 19:44 ` Lars-Dominik Braun
2021-06-22 6:53 ` Removal of Python 2? Hartmut Goebel
2021-06-22 12:41 ` Konrad Hinsen [this message]
2021-06-23 15:26 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-06-23 15:34 ` zimoun
2021-06-23 18:32 ` Konrad Hinsen
2021-06-22 18:02 ` Ryan Prior
2021-06-25 6:37 ` Konrad Hinsen
2021-06-22 7:00 ` Questions regarding Python packaging Hartmut Goebel
2021-06-28 11:59 ` Lars-Dominik Braun
2021-06-28 20:37 ` Hartmut Goebel
2021-06-29 7:20 ` Lars-Dominik Braun
2021-07-06 12:16 ` [bug#46848] " Lars-Dominik Braun
2021-07-07 15:01 ` Hartmut Goebel
2021-01-26 7:21 ` Tanguy LE CARROUR
2021-01-27 3:43 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2021-01-06 15:37 ` Tanguy LE CARROUR
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