On 17 Apr 2020, at 14:11, Dewayne Geraghty <dewaynegerag...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Its very confusing building ports at the moment. At https://www.python.org/ > there is a release candidate for 2.7.18, while our python 2.7 has been > marked as deprecated with an expiration date. Can the Expiration Date of > 2020-12-31 be retracted? > > It appears that devel/scons, at least, requires python 2.7 to run; though > it builds with 3.7.
See https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0373/; python 2.x is now really dead, and has been since 2020-01-01. But it is unfortunately terribly confusing for end-users that they're apparently still planning on shipping another "really final final" 2.7.18 version. A petition against this bad idea is here: https://discuss.python.org/t/petition-abandon-plans-to-ship-a-2-7-18-in-april/2946 But basically, expect all python 2.x using ports to go away, unless they get fixed to use python 3.x, or no python at all. -Dimitry
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