Re: [dpdk-dev] Dropping python 2 support

2020-02-17 Thread Robin Jarry
2020-02-13, Bruce Richardson: > Yes. I'd suggest for 20.05 perhaps putting a deprecation notice in the docs > and then later (20.08) putting warnings in the code. Perhaps full removal of > support should be done for 20.11, or do we need one more LTS release with > the support still present? I'll p

Re: [dpdk-dev] Dropping python 2 support

2020-02-13 Thread Bruce Richardson
On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 11:28:53AM +0100, Robin Jarry wrote: > 2020-02-13, Kevin Traynor: > > That is true for the distribution versions, but there may be developers > > doing some compiling themselves using latest. > > > > I think it would be ok to start the process of removing python2 from > > D

Re: [dpdk-dev] Dropping python 2 support

2020-02-13 Thread Robin Jarry
2020-02-13, Kevin Traynor: > That is true for the distribution versions, but there may be developers > doing some compiling themselves using latest. > > I think it would be ok to start the process of removing python2 from > DPDK...but...there probably needs to be some deprecation notice and time >

Re: [dpdk-dev] Dropping python 2 support

2020-02-13 Thread Kevin Traynor
On 13/02/2020 08:25, Robin Jarry wrote: > 2020-02-12, Bruce Richardson: >> I'm in favour of dropping the support in general, however, do we still not >> need to support some distro's e.g. Redhat/CentOS 7, which do not have >> python3? > > Since the 7.7 release, python3 is now officially available

Re: [dpdk-dev] Dropping python 2 support

2020-02-13 Thread Robin Jarry
2020-02-12, Bruce Richardson: > I'm in favour of dropping the support in general, however, do we still not > need to support some distro's e.g. Redhat/CentOS 7, which do not have > python3? Since the 7.7 release, python3 is now officially available in the official repos: https://access.redhat.com

Re: [dpdk-dev] Dropping python 2 support

2020-02-12 Thread Bruce Richardson
On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 02:41:56PM +0100, Robin Jarry wrote: > Hi all, > > As you may have noticed, Python 2 is officially end-of-life since > January 1st 2020. > > https://www.python.org/doc/sunset-python-2/ > > Some projects have already decided to drop python 2 support: > > https://github.co

[dpdk-dev] Dropping python 2 support

2020-02-12 Thread Robin Jarry
Hi all, As you may have noticed, Python 2 is officially end-of-life since January 1st 2020. https://www.python.org/doc/sunset-python-2/ Some projects have already decided to drop python 2 support: https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/commit/1ca0323e7c29 https://wiki.debian.org/Python/2Removal htt