From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Konrad Hinsen Subject: Re: the upcoming Great Python2 =?utf-8?Q?Purge=E2=84=A2?= Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 12:02:05 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20181226093812.GR2581@macbook41> <20190218095619.GC7206@macbook41> <87o979wftc.fsf@elephly.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:50494) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gvggd-0005KN-KV for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2019 06:02:13 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gvggb-0007ys-U5 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2019 06:02:11 -0500 Received: from out2-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:34021) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gvggb-0007wy-Ac for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2019 06:02:09 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87o979wftc.fsf@elephly.net> 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: Ricardo Wurmus Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hi Ricardo, > Konrad, going forward it might be reasonable to keep copies of required > Python 2 packages in your channel. We aren=E2=80=99t going to remove Pyt= hon 2 > packages now, but in the future we may not be able to fix unmaintained > packages and may have to remove them. "My channel" doesn't exist (because I haven't yet found the time to figure out how to set up and manage a channel, although it's been on my to-do list for a while). But... how about splitting off *all* of Python 2 and everything that depends on it into a separate channel, which would then be maintained by a separate team? This would remove the Python 2 maintenance burden from the Guix team, but still allow shared maintenance (expected to be low-effort) of a coherent distribution of Python 2 packages. If everybody starts a personal channel of whatever subset of those packages they require, there's a lot of duplicated effort and no clear location to turn to for end users. And if parts of Python 2 remain in Guix but other parts move elsewhere, there's needless friction in coordinating two projects that will end up having different policies. Konrad.