Is python2 dead?

2023-09-04 Thread Hal Murray via devel
Really really dead? Or maybe just hiding in some dark corner? Should we drop support for python2 as part of the next release? Or announce in the next release that we will drop it as part of the following release? -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. ___

Re: Is python2 dead?

2023-09-04 Thread Gary E. Miller via devel
Yo Hal! On Mon, 04 Sep 2023 14:15:26 -0700 Hal Murray via devel wrote: > Really really dead? Or maybe just hiding in some dark corner? Rumours of its death are greatly exagerated. > Should we drop support for python2 as part of the next release? > Or announce in the next release that we will

Re: Is python2 dead?

2023-09-04 Thread Matthew Selsky via devel
On Mon, Sep 04, 2023 at 02:25:46PM -0700, Gary E. Miller via devel wrote: > From RHEL: > > "The RHEL 8 AppStream Lifecycle Page puts the end date of RHEL 8's > Python 2.7 package at June 2024." > > https://access.redhat.com/solutions/4455511 Hi Gary, Is the implication that we can safely drop

Re: Is python2 dead?

2023-09-04 Thread James Browning via devel
On Sep 4, 2023 14:46, Matthew Selsky via devel wrote:On Mon, Sep 04, 2023 at 02:25:46PM -0700, Gary E. Miller via devel wrote: > From RHEL: > > "The RHEL 8 AppStream Lifecycle Page puts the end date of RHEL 8's > Python 2.7 package at June 2024." > > https://access.redhat.com/solutions/4

Re: Is python2 dead?

2023-09-04 Thread Hal Murray via devel
> Rumours of its death are greatly exagerated. Thanks. Let me try again with maybe closer to what I should have asked? Are there any distros that we currently run on that don't support python 3? I can imagine some places are running really really old software. If it ain't broke, don't fix it

Re: Is python2 dead?

2023-09-04 Thread Gary E. Miller via devel
Yo Hal! On Mon, 04 Sep 2023 15:46:45 -0700 Hal Murray via devel wrote: > > Rumours of its death are greatly exagerated. > > Thanks. > > Let me try again with maybe closer to what I should have asked? > > Are there any distros that we currently run on that don't support > python 3? RHEL. >

Re: Is python2 dead?

2023-09-04 Thread Gary E. Miller via devel
Yo James! On Mon, 04 Sep 2023 15:38:26 -0700 James Browning via devel wrote: > > By dropping 2.7 we could probably assume secrets which simplifies > > ntpkeygen, simplify ntp.poly, be able to drop the now oldoldstable? > > runner testing for asciidoc on python 2 support, and also have the > > op

Re: Is python2 dead?

2023-09-04 Thread Gary E. Miller via devel
Yo Matthew! On Mon, 4 Sep 2023 21:46:50 + Matthew Selsky wrote: > Is the implication that we can safely drop python2 support after June > 2024? Maybe. RHEL, and friends, are the last to drop things. Worse, people that use RHEL, and friends, seem to never update their systems... > Are the

Re: Is python2 dead?

2023-09-04 Thread Hal Murray via devel
Gary said: > Let's try again in a year. Sounds good to me. -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. ___ devel mailing list devel@ntpsec.org https://lists.ntpsec.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Is python2 dead?

2023-09-04 Thread Richard Laager via devel
On 2023-09-04 17:38, James Browning via devel wrote: On Sep 4, 2023 14:46, Matthew Selsky via devel wrote: On Mon, Sep 04, 2023 at 02:25:46PM -0700, Gary E. Miller via devel wrote: > From RHEL: > > "The RHEL 8 AppStream Lifecycle Page puts the end date of RHEL 8's > Pyt

Re: Is python2 dead?

2023-09-04 Thread Gary E. Miller via devel
Yo Richard! On Mon, 4 Sep 2023 19:24:22 -0500 Richard Laager via devel wrote: > Dropping support for Python 2 should allow for dropping most of the > poly infrastructure. That code (pylib/poly.py) involves some > contortions (see also [1]) to make it possible to run on both Python > 2 and Python