Brian May writes:
> I just noticed that Ubuntu plan to drop Python 2.7 completely - from
> default installs at least
That's a pretty important modifier!
Ubuntu does not yet plan to drop Python 2.7 completely. Rather, the
current plan is to ensure no *dependencies on* Python 2.7 in the default
On Apr 04, 2017, at 09:49 AM, Brian May wrote:
> I just noticed that Ubuntu plan to drop Python 2.7 completely - from
>default installs at least - for the 18.04 release:
That's not the same as dropping Python 2.7 from the archive, which we're no
where near close to doing.
It's really just an ex
On 2017-04-04 08:21, Brian May wrote:
> I would suggest that Buster have Python 2.7, however we only support 3rd
> party libraries where it is practical to do so. Any library that has
> dropped Python 2.7 support upstream, is not practical for us to support
> in Python2. Anything that depends on s
Brian May writes:
> It is perhaps worth noting that Django 2.0 is due to be released in
> December:
>
> https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/jun/25/roadmap/
Yes. More directly, Django 1.11 is planned to be the final
Python-2-compatible release. From the above URL:
As a final heads up,
Vincent Bernat writes:
> On the current subject, I also agree we should not drop prematurely
> packages targeted to Python 2. It is likely the support will be extended
> past 2020, at least by distributions with a 10-year support.
RHEL 7 will be supported until 2024.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
Barry Warsaw writes:
> For libraries that already support 2 and 3, I don't think we necessarily need
> to actively drop Python 2 yet. We have great tools, so it's usually just as
> easy to continue supporting both. I'm on the fence for new library packages,
> but I suppose if it's also just as
On Apr 01, 2017, at 05:12 PM, Ghislain Vaillant wrote:
>Pasting the relevant quotes below:
>
>"The 2.x series of Python is due for deprecation and will not be maintained
>past 2020 so it is recommended that Python 2 modules are not packaged unless
>necessary."
It's true that upstream will almost
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