Python support policy

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Richard!

On Fri, 4 Sep 2020 00:37:11 -0500
Richard Laager via devel <devel at ntpsec.org> wrote:

> On 9/4/20 12:16 AM, Gary E. Miller via devel wrote:
> > On Thu, 3 Sep 2020 23:28:33 -0500
> > Richard Laager via devel <devel at ntpsec.org> wrote:
> >   
> >> NTPsec can require Python
> >> 3 as long as all distros that NTPsec supports can install Python
> >> 3.  
> > 
> > Yup.  Let us know when that happens.  Gonna be years from now.  
> 
> Per INSTALL.adoc, NTPsec (when using Python 3) requires Python 3.3.
> This was released Sept 29, 2012. Can you give some examples of distro
> versions (that NTPsec otherwise supports) that do not ship Python 3.3
> or newer?

As previously mentioned here: RHEL 6.

Plus all the old installs that have not been updated.

The gpsd complaints show there are a lot of them.

Supporting Python 2 is trivial.  Why the hate?

RGDS
GARY
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