On 24/03/2021 14:03, Rene Ladan wrote:
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Hi,
below is an outline continuing the Python 2.7 cleanup:
- - all affected ports are now marked as deprecated, with an expiration date
of either 2020-12-31 or 2021-06-23.
- - we will have to wait for Chromium to fully switch to Python 3 before we
can fully remove Python 2.7. This is work in progress on their side. Not
waiting would imply removing www/chromium (obviously), editors/vscode
(it escaped the recursive-deprecation dance of devel/electron*), but most
importantly www/qt5-webengine which would drag half of KDE with it.
However, lang/python27 will be marked as RESTRICTED so that all ports
mentioned above can still be built and run, but Python 2.7 itself will
not be available as a package.
[...]
I really appreciate the work of ports team, committers and maintainers
but I dislike double standards. All ports requiring Python 2.7 were
marked deprecated the last year almost all of them removed according to
expiration date 2020-12-31 but some of them are still there.
If there is Python 2.7, if there is Chromium then any of removed ports
can be there. If "we" want to get rid of them then "we" should remove
all of them and not just some by sentiment.
For example Iridium browser was removed because of Python 2.7 but
Chromium is still there. They are both based on the same source with the
same dependencies but Iridium cares more about privacy, yet it was
slaughtered instead of Chromium.
I really would like to see some policies for things like this next time.
Miroslav Lachman
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