Python support policy

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Eric!

On Thu, 3 Sep 2020 06:37:07 -0400
"Eric S. Raymond" <esr at thyrsus.com> wrote:

> Gary E. Miller via devel <devel at ntpsec.org>:
> > > I don't want to go down this road.  I have ugly memories
> > > associated with a smiliar hack in gpsd, long ago.  
> > 
> > But what about how it works now?  All the maintainers like it.  
> 
> Oh dear Goddess. We are *still* mutating shebangs in GPSD?  I must
> have blotted that from my memory.

No, we are *finally* mutating python shebangs in GPS.

> One reason to stop doing this kind of thing is library-path confusion.

Say what?  This has zero to do with libraries.

> Yes, I know we have a lash-up that barely works around that in GPSD
> but our Debian package maintainer damn near has an aneurism any time
> he thinks about it and I can't blame him a bit.

Which is why what you are talking about got removed, with something the
maintainers like.

> It will come time to end Python 2 support in GPSD soon.

For some definition of "soon".  The last Python 2 release is barely 2
months old.  I can't get distros to use newer then 3 year old gpsd.  They
seem to think that software mellows sitting on the disk.

RGDS
GARY
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