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* Python 2 retirement — what should Guix do?
@ 2018-06-16 18:01 Leo Famulari
  2018-06-16 18:30 ` Nils Gillmann
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From: Leo Famulari @ 2018-06-16 18:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
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In 2020, Python 2 will no longer be supported by the Python team. [0]

To quote Guido van Rossum, "The way I see the situation for 2.7 is that
EOL is January 1st, 2020, and there will be no updates, not even
source-only security patches, after that date. Support (from the core
devs, the PSF, and python.org) stops completely on that date." [1]

In Guix we aim to offer software that is safe to use, which typically
means "maintained".

Presumably, Python 2 will be maintained by some third parties for quite
a while after 2020.

I wonder, what should Guix do?

Personally, I think our set of Python packages is relatively hard to
maintain. There is a lot of brittle code in there. I'd be happy to drop
our policy that Python libraries have both Python 2 and 3 packages by
default.

[0]
https://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0373/

[1]
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2018-March/152348.html

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2018-06-16 18:01 Python 2 retirement — what should Guix do? Leo Famulari
2018-06-16 18:30 ` Nils Gillmann
2018-06-16 20:42   ` Pjotr Prins
2018-06-16 21:08     ` Pjotr Prins
2018-06-16 21:01 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-06-17 21:15   ` Ludovic Courtès
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