Am 24.03.21 um 14:03 schrieb Rene Ladan: > Hi, > > below is an outline continuing the Python 2.7 cleanup: > > - No usage of lang/tauthon by the framework or any port, no excuses. > - lang/tauthon will be removed on 2021-06-23 as noticed in the port > itself, > no excuses. Tauthon is not guaranteed to be compatible with any official > Python version so keeping it would just unnecessarily complicate things. > - mail/mailman is being replaced by clusteradm@ with mlmmj. You can use > `pkg lock` to stick with it after removal, if there is no other way. > - you are of course free to provide your own version of Python 2.7, > Tauthon > and any application using those languages in your local setup, by using > overlays for example.
Rene, I am sorry to say that this is appalling * Why do you badmouth Tauthon as "not guaranteed to be compatible..." if that is its very design goal? - "Tauthon is a backwards-compatible fork of the Python 2.7.18 interpreter with new syntax, builtins, and libraries backported from Python 3.x. Python code and C-extensions targeting Python 2.7 or below are expected to run unmodified on Tauthon and produce the same output." <https://github.com/naftaliharris/tauthon> * What do you mean that "Tauthon [...] would unnecessarily complicate things"? What things specifically, and how? It might be a migration path to a maintained interpreter (we need nothing more, no fancy developments, to keep other ports in maintenance mode with a security update now and then, going). What other Python 2.x compatible interpreter would you propose instead of Tauthon? * Why, other than based on your false claims, is Tauthon being removed? * Why, other than based on your false claims, is Tauthon being rejected? * Why does anyone think that clusteradm@'s removal of ONE instance of mailman 2 by some unmaintained (*) software is a justification to ditch mailman 2? * Why do you mislead people on "you are of course free to provide you own version of <whatever>" when at the same time you threaten to remove other ports. While I am certainly fine with "no new Python 2 ports permitted", the refusal of Tauthon certainly warrants justification. (*) release frequency was abused as argument against mailman 2 - only that since the latest mlmmj release, there have been eleven mailman 2.1 releases. _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
