Gary E. Miller via devel <devel@ntpsec.org>: > Yo Mark! > > On Sat, 21 Sep 2019 14:33:37 -0700 > Mark Atwood via devel <devel@ntpsec.org> wrote: > > > Given that the Python community is driving hard on deprecating > > Python2 on 2020-01-01, I'm inclined to drop Python2 support on that > > date. > > > > https://pythonclock.org/ > > Python 2 has been deprecated since before 2015. 2020 is the current > end of End Of Life (EOL) date. We should not get involved in any fight > between an upstream and its users. At least until forced to. > > A lot of foot dragging distros, like RHEL, just updated to Python 3 this > year. RHEL users, being RHEL users, will likely take at least a few > years to update to RHEL 8. We should not abandon them. > > The cost to ntpsec to supporting Python 2 in addition to Python is very > minor. Without a good reason to kill off Python 2 we should keep it. > > NTPsec should support Python 2 for as long as more than a few distros are > still supporting Python 2. That whole "backpatch" thing that RHEL, and > others, keep touting. > > NTPsec should not be like systemd forcing hard choices on users.
I missed Mark's question. I concur with Gary's answer.
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<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>
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