Re: Bringing back lang/python27 with few modules?
On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 01:57:56AM +, Pau Amma wrote: > On 2021-11-18 01:37, Kubilay Kocak wrote: > > We've had many user reports over the last year re the entire > > situation, including a number recently about pypy in particular. > > Late to the discussion, but I'm sad that Chromium survived the Python2.7 > removal and Iridium didn't. :-( Upstream Iridium always seems to lag behind Chromium for a bit, but it is doing OK now I geuss (one major version behind). The problem with Iridium is also volunteer time to keep the port up to date, one Chromium-like port is already a lot. René
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Re: Bringing back lang/python27 with few modules?
On 22/11/2021 10:46, Rene Ladan wrote: On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 01:57:56AM +, Pau Amma wrote: On 2021-11-18 01:37, Kubilay Kocak wrote: We've had many user reports over the last year re the entire situation, including a number recently about pypy in particular. Late to the discussion, but I'm sad that Chromium survived the Python2.7 removal and Iridium didn't. :-( Upstream Iridium always seems to lag behind Chromium for a bit, but it is doing OK now I geuss (one major version behind). The problem with Iridium is also volunteer time to keep the port up to date, one Chromium-like port is already a lot. Even if you are OK with Chromium, there are users for which Chromium is not an option and Iridium is more than just preferable. (or Ungoogled, or Brave or something else not so heavily tied to Google spying / tracking) Removing Iridium was a really bad step. Kind regards Miroslav Lachman
Re: Bringing back lang/python27 with few modules?
Sorry for top posting here: How about Tauthon ... a sort-of-maintained fork is better than maintaining 2.7 on our own. https://github.com/naftaliharris/tauthon Pedro. On 22/11/2021 13:46, Miroslav Lachman wrote: On 22/11/2021 10:46, Rene Ladan wrote: On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 01:57:56AM +, Pau Amma wrote: On 2021-11-18 01:37, Kubilay Kocak wrote: We've had many user reports over the last year re the entire situation, including a number recently about pypy in particular. Late to the discussion, but I'm sad that Chromium survived the Python2.7 removal and Iridium didn't. :-( Upstream Iridium always seems to lag behind Chromium for a bit, but it is doing OK now I geuss (one major version behind). The problem with Iridium is also volunteer time to keep the port up to date, one Chromium-like port is already a lot. Even if you are OK with Chromium, there are users for which Chromium is not an option and Iridium is more than just preferable. (or Ungoogled, or Brave or something else not so heavily tied to Google spying / tracking) Removing Iridium was a really bad step. Kind regards Miroslav Lachman
Re: Bringing back lang/python27 with few modules?
Hi! > How about Tauthon ... a sort-of-maintained fork is better than maintaining > 2.7 on our own. > > https://github.com/naftaliharris/tauthon See the palemoon PR, where this is part of the debate: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=251117 -- p...@freebsd.org +49 171 3101372 Now what ?
