On Mon, 3 Jun 2019 at 19:21, John Snow <js...@redhat.com> wrote: > I get it, we don't want to require Python 3.8 because some dev wanted > assignment conditionals -- but we're talking about Python 2 here, which > suffers its EOL by the end of this calendar year. > > So do we think it's reasonable to drop support for Python2 for the > release that comes out after Python2's EOL, or do we insist on 2x3 > simultaneous support for years more?
I don't have a strong opinion on Python in particular, but I think it would be nicer to avoid the "python is a special snowflake" effect. Would it really be so bad for it to just be "drop it when it falls off the last LTS distro" like the rest of our dependencies ? thanks -- PMM