From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Alex Griffin" Subject: Re: Python 2 end-of-life? Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 17:28:43 +0000 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:40550) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iXqHC-00007j-Gk for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2019 12:29:55 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iXqHB-0003Vy-B9 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2019 12:29:54 -0500 Received: from wout2-smtp.messagingengine.com ([64.147.123.25]:42933) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iXqHA-0003Ub-Ku for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2019 12:29:53 -0500 Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.internal [10.202.2.46]) by mailout.west.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32F73A91 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2019 12:29:50 -0500 (EST) 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: guix-devel@gnu.org On Thu, Nov 21, 2019, at 11:46 AM, zimoun wrote: > What do you do? > Do we deprecate the python2 packages? If yes, what would be the > schedule? If no, do we move all the python2 packages to a > python2-xyz.scm file? > Do we do nothing? Based on what rationale? I think a good place to start is by just filing bugs against packages that rely on Python 2, saying that they face removal once Python 2 is EOL. As Konrad pointed out though, not every package necessarily needs to support Python 3. I think there can probably be exceptions for packages that do not add much security risk or maintenance work. Red Hat will continue providing security fixes to Python 2 for several more years. PyPy will also continue to support Python 2 indefinitely, so packaging that and making it an option in python-build-system may be an option for some packages. -- Alex Griffin