From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: Python 2 end-of-life? Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 18:43:34 +0100 Message-ID: <871rttb4ft.fsf@elephly.net> References: <20191126215145.GA1044@PhantoNv4ArchGx.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:43552) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ia1Lq-0004J5-Kk for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Nov 2019 12:43:43 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ia1Lp-0002RX-JM for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Nov 2019 12:43:42 -0500 Received: from sender4-of-o54.zoho.com ([136.143.188.54]:21478) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ia1Lp-0002Ou-4n for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Nov 2019 12:43:41 -0500 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: zimoun Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org zimoun writes: >> It would be a shame if half a dozen lines of python were pulling in >> all that weight if it could have been a few lines of guile or bash instead. > > Do you propose to patch each time? Because I am not convinced again > that upstream will change Python to Guile. We have python-on-guile, which might just work as a replacement for trivial uses of Python 2. -- Ricardo