Re: Is python2 dead?

2023-09-11 Thread Eric S. Raymond via devel
Hal Murray via devel : > Really really dead? Or maybe just hiding in some dark corner? Python 2 was end-of-lifed on 1 Jan 2020. It looks pretty dead from where I'm sitting, but I'm aware that people who run RHEL have a different opynion. > Should we drop support for python2 as part of the next

Re: Is python2 dead?

2023-09-11 Thread Hal Murray via devel
Thanks. Maybe it's time to switch to Go? How long would it take us to rewrite, from scratch, everything in ntpclients? I occasionally poke around in ntpq. I find it very hard to work with. I think the others are much simpler. Is the basic structure right? If we were starting from scratch, w

Re: Is python2 dead?

2023-09-11 Thread Gary E. Miller via devel
Yo Hal! On Mon, 11 Sep 2023 22:03:45 -0700 Hal Murray via devel wrote: > Maybe it's time to switch to Go? Please, no. Go is a garbage collected language. Just what NTPsec does not need, random, unpredictable delays. RGDS GARY --